All eight remaining teams were in action Saturday in a jam-packed, home run-filled day of baseball.
Category: Baseball
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With Skubal up next, Tigers notch ‘huge’ G1 win
After winning two of three in Cleveland during the wild-card round, the Detroit Tigers, who have spent the past two weeks on the road, took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five American League Division Series on Saturday via a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners.
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Resurgent Tigers top M’s in extras for Game 1 win
After nearly collapsing down the stretch of the regular season, the Detroit Tigers are in position to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the ALDS with Tarik Skubal on the mound in Game 2.
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Vlad Jr.’s playoff breakout fuels Jays past Yanks
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s first-inning homer was part of a three-hit night that gave the Blue Jays a “jolt” in Saturday’s 10-1 Game 1 win over the Yankees.
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Another Hernandez HR lifts Dodgers over Phillies
Teoscar Hernandez rallied the Los Angeles Dodgers with a three-run homer in the seventh inning that silenced the crowd and led his club to a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 1 of their National League Division Series on Saturday night.
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Brewers’ Chourio (hamstring) exits G1, has MRI
After becoming the first player to have three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game, Milwaukee outfielder Jackson Chourio left the Brewers’ 9-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs with a hamstring injury during Saturday’s NL Division Series opener.
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Counsell stands by short-rest Boyd after G1 flop
Cubs manager Craig Counsell said he was “very comfortable” starting Matthew Boyd on three days’ rest after the lefty lasted just eight batters in Saturday’s 9-3 loss to the Brewers in Game 1 of the NLDS.