With a week left, Detroit and Cleveland are separated by one game atop the division — and the race might fall among the greatest finishes of all time.
Category: Baseball
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Who are MLB’s teams to beat this October — and who could take them down?
In a year with no 100-game winners, here’s who those around the sport think could make a deep postseason run.
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Cal Raleigh Home Run Watch: Will the Big Dumper reach 60?
The Mariners catcher just passed another legend with his latest blasts. Here’s where his season could go next.
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Raleigh’s 58th HR fuels Mariners’ sweep of Astros
Mariners star Cal Raleigh hit his MLB-leading 58th home run Sunday night as Seattle completed a three-game sweep of Houston.
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Young’s highlight-reel grabs cap Nationals’ win
Washington Nationals center fielder Jacob Young made two incredible catches on Sunday at Citi Field that sent the struggling New York Mets, who are fighting for the control of the final wild-card slot in the National League, to a costly 3-2 defeat.
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Fading Mets slump into wild-card tie with Reds
Sean Manaea and the Mets lost 3-2 to the Washington Nationals that concluded an ugly weekend at Citi Field on Sunday, and combined with a 1-0 Reds’ win over the Chicago Cubs, New York is now tied with Cincinnati for the final NL wild-card slot.
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Mariners’ Raleigh hits MLB-leading 58th home run
Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh hit his MLB-leading 58th home run on Sunday night, a two-run shot in the second inning against the Houston Astros that came one night after he passed Ken Griffey Jr. for the franchise’s single-season home run record.
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Brewers celebrate division title, feel like underdogs
Carrying the best record in baseball, the Brewers won their fourth division title in the past five seasons and yet feel like the underdogs as the playoffs loom.
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Astros’ Pena scratched vs. M’s with sore oblique
Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena, who has 17 home runs and 62 RBIs this season, was scratched from Sunday night’s game vs. the Mariners with left oblique soreness.
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Young’s highlight-reel grabs extend Mets’ woes
Washington Nationals center fielder Jacob Young made two incredible catches on Sunday at Citi Field that sent the struggling New York Mets, who are fighting for the control of the final wild-card slot in the National League, to a costly 3-2 defeat.