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Although it has finally ended, professional sports’ longest-running soap opera was “The Curse of the Bambino”, in which our hapless heroes, the Boston Red Sox, were continually denied World Series glory because of Boston’s sale of Babe “The...

And while the Wild Card situation is questionable for a few (why should there be a one-game standoff when most baseball games are played in series), for viewers it’s about as intense as baseball can get. The National League Wild Card Game will be played the next day on...

Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia will be unavailable for the postseason, according to a statement released by the team on Monday. My barber lost 40 pounds on his doctor’s orders, but I felt like his smaller gut affected the scissors-to-hair angle and resulted in a bad cut, so I...

Fans stayed after the conclusion of the game just to cheer on Davis one more time as he did the post-game interview on MASN.

If the Astros win and Yankees lose, then the AL West team will host the Yankees in the WC affair regardless of what the Rangers do. He finished with a 15-8 record and 3.81 ERA.

Davis slipped dramatically past year, batting only.197, but has come up with a season that should make him a hot commodity during the offseason, when he too becomes a free agent.

First-year manager Jeff Banister stood in a corner of the Texas Rangers clubhouse watching players celebrate, with champagne spraying all over the place. If the Astros plan on making noise in the playoffs in tight, nerve-racking games, they will need the bullpen to perform like...

Following a season-long six-game winning streak, the Red Sox nosedive at the end, culminating with another loss Sunday, 3-1 to Cleveland, on the final game of the season. “He had really good command of his breaking ball, even in that weather”, Francona said. “He...

The Yankees won their 10,000 game as a franchise in the regular season and they will be in the AL Wild Card game with the Houston Astros, Angels or Minnesota Twins as potential opponents.

As his struggling team prepared to face the Orioles in the final game of the season, Joe Girardi spoke of how resilient the Yankees have been all year.

The Yanks could clinch home-field advantage for the AL Wild Card Game with one more win or one Astros loss.

“With all the stuff that I went through in ’14, I talked about how dark those days were, to come back this year and be part of such a special team, such special guys”. “We truly are a family and we’ve built a great brotherhood in here”.

The Astros were at Seattle and Los Angeles home against Oakland later Tuesday night.

They’re now a full game back of the Astros for the last available Wild Card spot, while tied with the Twins and, perhaps, in need of three straight wins to extend their season.

Yankees: RHP Nathan Eovaldi still has inflammation in his right elbow and won’t be able to resume throwing until next week, Girardi said.