Bill Buckner, a longtime baseball star who spoofed his crucial late-career World Series error on Curb Your Enthusiasm, died today. He was 69. Sportswriter Jeremy Schaap tweeted that Buckner’s widow Jody said had been suffering from Lewy body dementia. Buckner played for five teams during his 22-year career, amassing…

A fight between two men at Dodgers Stadium on Friday night has left one fan on life support. The Dodgers have said they are cooperating with the police investigation. The incident is reminiscent of a 2011 Dodgers Stadium altercation involving San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, who suffered permanent disability and…

The Boston Red Sox are the 2018 World Series champions, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5 to 1 Sunday night at Dodgers Stadium and wrapping up an impressive 4-1 takedown. The championship is the fourth by Boston in this century after a 20th century drought that dated to 1918. It is their first championship…

UPDATE: Fox claims 13,564,000 viewers tuned in to Game 4 of the World Series, projecting to its fifth straight nightly win in prime time, with the total audience peaking at 16,772,000. Fox averaged an audience of 14,146,000 across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Streaming platforms. Game 4 was the most-watched game on Fox…

UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS:  The 18-inning drama between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night goosed the World Series ratings on two Fox platforms. While television scored 13,251,000 fans for prime time –  down 4% from Game 2 – Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Digital celebrated increases. Fox…

Baseball fans on Twitter were livid on Friday night, as DirecTV in Phoenix experienced technical difficulties that took the service offline in the 10th inning of the World Series. Fox Sports leaped into the breach, reminding fans that a live stream was available on the Fox Sports app.The crucial game three of the…

UPDATE 4:20 PM: The World Series is taking a night off as the 2-0 Boston Red Sox and the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers move America’s pastime out West after Game 1 and Game 2 in Beantown. With Game 3 set for tomorrow night in the City of Angels, the final numbers from last night’s Game 2 reveal that Fox is also…

UPDATE, 3:55 PM: Game 2 of the 2018 World Series is about to start very soon but the final numbers of last night's Boston Red Sox's winning Game 1 certainly show some room for improvement, at least over the past few years. Scoring a 3.7/17 rating among adults 18-49 and 13.8 million viewers, the almost four hour game…

The Los Angeles Dodgers World Series ticket-punching 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series outslugged all others on TV on Saturday, scoring a 4.9 overnight rating on Fox Sports 1. The game — highlighted by stellar pitching from rookie starter Walker Buehler…

The Los Angeles Dodgers are going back to the World Series, knocking off the upstart Milwaukee Brewers tonight 5-1 in a sudden-death Game 7 in the National League Championship Series. That victory gives them the right to face the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, which starts Tuesday. Riding a three-run home run in…

This news isn’t likely to cheer Clayton Kershaw up, but ESPN said today that Thursday’s 2018 MLB opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants drew the sports net’s best opening-day numbers in six years. The 1-0 victory by the hated Giants at Dodger Stadium was seen by 1.67 million viewers, also making…

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…