PITTSBURGH — The Los Angeles Dodgers were said to be an unslayable giant, a team so good all 29 other clubs were simply wasting their time playing out the 2026 season.

I guess the Milwaukee Brewers didn’t get the message.

On Thursday, the cream of the National League rose to the top. The Brewers swept the two-time defending World Series ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Three years ago, four friends celebrated the end of their first season as professional baseball players by getting together for a golf trip to Port Charlotte, Fla.

“We’re actually doing that this winter, too,” Aidan Miller said. “It’ll be fun to reunite with those guys.”

Imagine the new stories they could tell.

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LOS ANGELES — This wasn't supposed to be how the Dodgers' 2026 season ended.

There was supposed to be more champagne, a trophy to raise, and the first World Series three-peat by a National League team to jot down in the history books.

Instead, the Dodgers ran into the team with the best regular-season record. And the Milwaukee Brewers proved...Read more

CLEVELAND — Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Rays and Guardians was postponed Friday night due to inclement weather.

The game will now be played Saturday at 8 p.m.

Game 5, originally scheduled for Saturday in Cleveland, will move to Sunday at 5 p.m.

Around 7:45, the grounds crew removed the tarp, but it was not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Shohei Ohtani stood in front of his locker – not in front of a sponsored background for once – and answered questions following the Dodgers’ season-ending loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night, there was one thing about which he was not vague or evasive.

He intends to pitch next season and return to being a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What we know: The Dodgers lost. Their season is no more. Their three-peat dream has been dashed. Their winter is upon us.

What we don't know: What the future holds, in what could be a turbulent winter for the Dodgers and for all of Major League Baseball.

Here are four things we don't know about the Dodgers, but well worth ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell, sitting next to soon-to-be free agent Tarik Skubal at their lockers in the aftermath of their team's elimination from the National League Championship Series elimination, made a promise:

"I'll be recruiting," he interjected with a smile, as Skubal declined to comment on free agency, saying it was...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Miguel Rojas didn’t want to take his cleats off.

The veteran infielder stood by his locker at Dodger Stadium, his eyes red and watery, his uniform covered in dirt, knowing that when he pulled them off, it would be for the last time.

“This is it, guys,” he said, announcing his retirement, after the Los Angeles Dodgers were...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the end, it was all too much — coming back from a 3-0 deficit, winning a third consecutive World Series championship.

Shohei Ohtani came back to life after two months of ugly at-bats, unfamiliar criticism and questions about whether he even belonged in the Dodgers’ lineup. His three-run home run in the second inning on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The two World Series championship trophies royally entered Dodger Stadium in a blue convertible while being cradled by two October heroes.

The 2024 trophy was held by Freddie Freeman, whose grand slam toppled the New York Yankees.

The 2025 trophy was held by Miguel Rojas, whose home run stunned the Toronto Blue Jays.

On this ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Major League Baseball officials made the right call Thursday, moving the start of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series up five hours, to 1:10 p.m., to play in sunshine and under blue skies — 62 degrees at first pitch — knowing rain was coming during the original evening time slot.

They spent much of Thursday and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — You probably don't believe the slumping Dodgers can come back from this gaping 3-0 deficit to beat the surging Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series.

And you probably didn't believe that manager Dave Roberts should continue penciling in Shohei Ohtani — flailing and failing and having gone 3 for 20 this ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Going into this American League Championship Series, both managers talked about how they expected an even, challenging and back-and-forth affair.

So far, that’s what they’ve gotten.

The Guardians won Game 3 on Thursday afternoon at Progressive Field, 3-2, after taking Monday’s opener at Tropicana Field and the Rays winning ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before Don Mattingly became a six-time All-Star and before his No. 23 was retired by the Yankees, he was a 19th-round draft selection.

“I got passed over by a lot of guys before they drafted me, so there was a lot of players that I was behind,” Mattingly said. “You just got to keep going out and showing what you can do.�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pay no attention to the Phillies’ palace intrigue.

Everyone should be laser focused on one simple fact. This year’s World Series will likely feature two teams that spent nearly $60 million less combined on their 2026 rosters than the Phillies spent on theirs. I know that sounds absurd. It is absurd. But that is the math.

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LOS ANGELES — Reach out and feel the drywall. The Dodgers’ backs are up against it.

The plucky little team that doesn’t hit home runs hit three of them off of Blake Snell on Wednesday night. The Milwaukee Brewers handed the Dodgers a 6-2 defeat in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, pushing the back-to-back champions to the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell stood on the mound with his hand on his left hip, waiting for Jake Bauers to cross the plate before punching in his pitch call for the next batter.

He’d just given up the lead, on Bauers’ two-run homer, in what had been a stellar start Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. But Snell was ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash had a pretty simple and straightforward answer to why they chose right-hander Griffin Jax to start Wednesday’s pivotal third game of the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Guardians.

“What we like is what he’s done as a starter for us all season long,” Cash said. “...Read more