Baseball Hall of Famer, Knuckleballer Phil Niekro Dies At 81
Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro, who won his 300th game as a Yankee, has died.
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Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro, who won his 300th game as a Yankee, has died.
Cleveland's Major League Baseball team has decided to change its nickname, moving away from the moniker it has employed for more than 100 years and that is considered insensitive to indigenous peoples, according to David Waldstein and Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times.
Porter won three World Series in the front office for the Boston Red Sox and another with the Chicago Cubs before joining Arizona as a senior vice president and assistant GM in 2017.
McCann was regarded as the second-best catcher on the free agent market behind J.T. Realmuto.
The Miami Marlins made history on Friday by hiring Kim Ng to take over as the team's new general manager. With the move, Ng becomes the first female GM in Major League Baseball History.
Sandy Alderson will take over as team president and will now build the front office from scratch.
It's one of only two known original photos of the team to feature legendary Yankees Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig together.
The Rays won the AL Division Series 3-2 and will stay in San Diego to face the Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series starting Sunday night.
Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century has died.
The Yankees will play rival Tampa Bay in a best-of-five Division Series next week in San Diego.
The best-of-three series continues Wednesday night with Carlos Carrasco trying to save Cleveland's season against Masahiro Tanaka.
New York couldn't hold a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning of a seven-inning game and missed the postseason for the fourth straight year.
LeMahieu had his fourth four-hit game and three RBIs while raising his average to .359. Voit hit his major league-leading 22nd homer.
New York tied Pittsburgh for the major league lead with 46 errors.
The Mets (26-31) moved within 2 1/2 games of Miami (28-28) for second place in the NL East and within 2 1/2 games of San Francisco (28-28) for the NL's second wild card spot.
The slumping New York Yankees, meanwhile, look likely to play on the road in the postseason, where they've struggled all year.
The loss guaranteed the Mets (25-31) will finish with a sub-.500 record for the ninth time in the last 12 seasons.
The Yankees, who have four games left, were in danger of falling 2 1/2 games behind Minnesota for the No. 4 seed and a home-field berth next week.
Cole (7-3) struck out seven and walked none, inducing 11 ground-ball outs and 14 swings and misses.
Robinson Canó, Alonso and newcomer Guillermo Heredia went deep for the Mets, desperately trying to stay in the National League playoff chase with five games now remaining in the regular season.
Nate Lowe homered and scored both runs against NL Cy Young Award contender Jacob deGrom.
Gary Sanchez hit a tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning, DJ LeMahieu had a double in the 12th and the Yankees rallied past the Red Sox.
For all those folks who wanted J-Lo and A-Rod to become the next owners of the Mets, that's not going to happen.
Jake Marisnick hit an RBI double in the fourth that put the Mets ahead. Toronto tied it in the bottom half.
