NEW YORK — While the Yankees will be without Anthony Volpe on Opening Day after the shortstop had his left shoulder surgically repaired, a far more important member of the team’s lineup avoided the knife.

That would be Aaron Judge, who will not have his right elbow operated on this offseason after suffering a right flexor strain midway ...Read more

SEATTLE — As far as advice goes, this might be the most futile piece possible for Mariners fans to follow.

I'll give it a shot anyway.

Relax.

Fill those lungs to capacity and exhale. Lift those lips into a smile. Things are good right now — even if they don't feel like it.

Yes, your team just endured one of its most lopsided losses of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers aren't supposed to be making this look so easy.

From Day 1 in spring training, this was the season storyline: Can the Dodgers become the first major league team in 25 years to repeat as champions?

Easy to understand. Hard to do.

But a deeper look reveals a degree of difficulty beneath the storyline.

The New York ...Read more

SEATTLE — Game on, and on to Game 4.

The Toronto Blue Jays rocked George Kirby and the Mariners, 13-4, in Game 3 on Wednesday night, silencing a sold-out Seattle crowd and climbing back into this best-of-seven American League Championship Series in emphatic fashion.

Party-like vibes had taken over T-Mobile Park early Wednesday evening, after...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At 5:37 p.m. Wednesday, Michael Buble's "Feeling Good" blared from the Dodger Stadium speakers.

Shohei Ohtani came strolling to the plate with a bat in his hands.

There was no one in the stands, of course. Nor an opposing pitcher on the mound. The Dodgers, on this workout day after returning from Milwaukee, were still some 22 ...Read more

NEW YORK — After playing through a partially torn labrum for most of the 2025 season, Anthony Volpe underwent surgery on his left shoulder on Tuesday.

The procedure, reported by the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, was performed by Yankees team doctor Christopher Ahmad. The hope is that Volpe will be ready for the start of the 2026 season, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Four days after the Chicago Cubs’ season ended in the National League Division Series, team President Jed Hoyer reflected.

Hoyer, during his annual end-of-season news conference Wednesday at Wrigley Field, described how proud he felt of the team with its consistency, effort and connection to the fans while also acknowledging that ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Witness testimony began Wednesday with an accusation of negligent supervision in the high stakes trial against the Angels by the family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Tim Mead, an Angels employee of 40 years, was portrayed by the plaintiffs' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, during four hours of direct examination as a well-meaning...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Los Angeles Dodgers haven't so much beaten opponents this postseason as they have worn them down. A lineup that underperformed for much of the summer has been relentless, resourceful and unstoppable in the fall.

And deep. Did we mention deep? Because while the Dodgers have stars at the top of that lineup, it's been the players...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Teoscar Hernández doesn't believe in ghosts.

But just the same, the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder declined to stay with the team at the historic — and allegedly haunted — Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee during the first two games of the National League Championship Series against the Brewers this week.

Hernández told ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs should have some extra motivation for 2026 after Milwaukee Brewers reliever Trevor Megill brought an “L” flag to his team’s postgame picture following Saturday’s National League Division Series-clinching win at American Family Field.

It was one last way to taunt the Cubs — the Brewers’ archrivals in the ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers have used the slogan “Magic Brew” as the tagline for their postseason run.

On Tuesday night, the Dodgers made it feel like the magic was running out.

In their first truly stress-free win of these playoffs, the Dodgers slowly suffocated the Brewers in a 5-1 Game 2 victory in the National League ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Technically, Roki Sasaki was available to pitch in relief for the Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Realistically, he wasn’t.

“I wouldn’t say unavailable,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game. “But it is unlikely that we will use him.”

The Dodgers had only one potential silver bullet, and it wasn’t even loaded for ...Read more

BOSTON — When Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Red Sox this past spring that included opt outs after each season, it seemed clear the veteran third baseman would try his luck on the open market at some point.

Now, it appears that time has come.

According to MLB insider Jon Heyman, Bregman plans to exercise his opt...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Can you put a price on the experience of enjoying a World Series game at Dodger Stadium?

Yes, and it's a very high one.

The Dodgers put tickets for potential World Series games on sale Tuesday, with the cheapest seat available for $881.95, according to an afternoon review of the team website. That seat — $800 for the ticket ...Read more

TORONTO — After conceding nine consecutive runs in a stunning loss to the Detroit Tigers, a song cruelly thumped through the Seattle Mariners’ clubhouse. It seemed, at the time, like a fitting nod to this fan base’s unending agony.

The same six words repeated:

I’m just a sucker for pain.

Consider where these Mariners were on Wednesday...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tyrese Haliburton was once a Milwaukee Brewers fan.

Now he's possibly their biggest troll.

On Saturday, the injured Indiana Pacers star sat on his team's bench during a preseason game against the Oklahoma City Thunder wearing a Chicago Cubs jersey. It just so happened that the Cubs were playing the Brewers that day in Game 5 of...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a hotel room because the ballclub allowed an employee they allegedly long knew to be a drug addict and dealer to travel with players on a Texas road trip, attorneys representing Skaggs’ family told an Orange County jury on Tuesday, Oct. 14, as a civil trial began in a wrongful death ...Read more