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If you’re a New York Yankees fan living in Seattle, you’ve learned that you can watch your favorite team on Major League Baseball’s Extra Inning cable package or MLB.TV’s streaming package – except when they’re playing in your city. That’s because a blackout occurs and only allows that fan to watch…

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Dodgers are releasing controversial pitcher Trevor Bauer.  The former Cy Young winner was designated for assignment by the team today in a widely expected move.. Bauer was reinstated from a two-year suspension by an arbitrator last month. He was accused of sexual assault by a woman to…

A promotion for House of the Dragon during last night’s New York Yankees-Cleveland Guardians playoff baseball game on TBS is continuing to draw online eyerolls the day after the stunt. With parent company Warner Bros Discovery looking to make use of every pixel of promotional real estate, the notion…

UPDATED with sentencing: Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels communication director who earlier this year was convicted of distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday. The minimum sentence was for 20 years, but…

ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will team to televise the 2022 MLB Wild Card Series beginning Friday with four games, marking the debut of the reformatted and expanded baseball postseason. Four best-of-3 series will be on tap in the first year of the wild card round, which will feature each league’s third…

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge broke a 61-year-old record when he hit his 62nd home run in a game Tuesday against the Texas Rangers. The slugger made history by breaking the American League record for single-season home runs that had been held by Roger Maris since 1961. Maris, in turn, had broken…

For the Los Angeles Angels, 2023 will bring one more year of “Sho-Time.” Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed on a $30 million contract for the 2023 season, the largest salary ever for an arbitration-eligible player. He surpassd the $27 million deal Dodger Mookie Betts signed for $27…

Maury Wills, whose long tenure with the Los Angeles Dodgers began the year after the team moved to the West Coast in the late 1950s and included three World Series championships, died September 19 at his home in Sedona, AZ, the team said Tuesday. He was 89. Wills, a five-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove-winning…

Pete Rose declined to answer two reporters’ questions today about his relationship with an alleged underage girl in his first return to Philadelphia since August 1989. Rose was present as the team celebrated the Phillies’ 1980 World Series championship team and other former players. The incidents in question first…

“Baseball is a game for fathers and sons,” someone once said. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw learned that again tonight when he rose to leave his All-Star Game press conference and a member of the media told him, “Clayton, I think there’s a kid who’s trying to ask you [something].” "Oh, dude, sorry," Kershaw said as…

The only strike at Dodger Stadium this week will be in the batters box. Workers at the ballpark have agreed they will continue negotiating a new contract and will not disrupt the Major League Baseball All-Star Game activities there. A strike by workers seeking better wages, benefits and other protections loomed large…

It’s not too often a costar out-funnies Tom Hanks, but it happened tonight when the actor threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener for MLB’s Cleveland Guardians. As he was introduced Hanks walked out to the mound carrying what appeared to be Wilson, his volleyball companion in Robert Zemeckis’ Castaway…