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…

Regardless of who won last night, Game 2 of the 2017 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers is already being minted as a classic. From the on-field introduction by the legendary Vin Scully, an all-time World Series home run record, fires breaking out in the Elysian Park hills near Dodger…

Major League Baseball‘s 2014 season isn’t even 10 games old, which means every team is still in contention. Even the Houston Astros, whose fans have suffered with the league’s worst record each of the past three years. The team is mired in last place again — natch — but even more disheartening is the 0.0 Nielsen…