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Major League Baseball teams returned to the field this week for the start of spring training. Grapefruit and Cactus league play has been an annual ritual for more than a century ahead of the spring start of the regular season, but this year there are as many existential questions as fastballs flying through the…

UPDATED, 11;55 AM: Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred today gave his first public interview regarding the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the sport. He also took time to respond to the Los Angeles City Council’s resolution that urges MLB to give the tainted 2017 and 2018 World Series titles to the…

The Washington Nationals are the 2019 World Series champions, beating the Houston Astros 6-2 in a tense, well-played Game 7 to take the title at Minute Maid Park in Houston. The Nationals victory continued the oddball string of visiting teams winning every game in this Series. It was DC’s first baseball title since…

The Houston Astros have apologized to a Sports Illustrated reporter for attempting to discredit her story. Astros owner Jim Crane sent SI reporter Stepehanie Apstein a letter on Saturday apologizing for the team, which initially called her report on assistant general manager Brandon Taubman “an attempt to fabricate…

The 2019 World Series will start on Tuesday at Minute Maid Park in Houston, thanks to last night’s walk-off home run by the Houston Astros star infielder Jose Altuve to lead his team to a 6-4 triumph over the New York Yankees. First pitch for the World Series on Tuesday is at 8:08 PM ET, with broadcasting on Fox, live…

The TBS telecast of ALCS Game 1 between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox generated the top program of the day across all of cable and broadcast TV based on metered market delivery. The game, which the Astros trampled the Red Sox 7-2, averaged 5,821,000 viewers. Compared to the 2016 ALCS Game 1, the viewership…

The return of the Trump boys, the now-expected surprise appearance by World Series winners and the ground-staking arrival of both a new character and the new cast member who plays her made for one of SNL’s strongest Weekend Updates this season. Co-anchor Michael Che got things started by mentioning the recent…

UPDATE, 10:53 AM: The Houston Astros are now the World Series champions but the final game of the 2017 Fall Classic is a runner-up to last year’s historic baseball ender. With 28.22 million viewers for the Astros 5-1 victory over the Dodgers in L.A. last night, the 2017 Game 7 fell 30% from the 2016 Game 7 when the…

Erase the Houston Astros from the list of MLB teams that haven’t won a World Series. The American League champs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, in Game 7 tonight in an anticlactic end to an otherwise classic Fall Classic. The win at Dodger Stadium denies the Boys in Blue their first title since 1988. The victory…

The stage is set for game 7 of the World Series on Fox as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on their home turf in Dodger Stadium. After a nail-biting Game 5, Game 6 of the 113th World Series was a little bit less anxiety-driven as the Dodgers managed to come from behind to defeat the Astros. This…

Before the singing of the National Anthem and the first pitch of the highly-anticpated game 6 of the World Series, the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and the crowd in Dodger Stadium honored the victims of today’s truck attack in Manhattan with a moment of silence. The tragic incident happened today in Lower…

UPDATE:  Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has suspended Houston Astros player Yuli Garriel for five games without pay in the 2018 season for his racially insensitive actions in Friday night’s World Series game. Gurriel will have to undergo sensitivity training, and the Astros said they would donate his salary for the…