2025 World Series — Tonight, the Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Toronto Blue Jays for Game Three of the World Series, with the teams having split the first two games in Toronto.
You can do this dance with pretty much every game early in a seven-game series, but, yes, Game Three is often a swing game. From Sarah Langs :
“In the history of best-of-seven postseason series with the current 2-3-2 format, teams that have split the first two games at home still have gone on to win the ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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We have tonight’s lineups. Bo is back in the four spot. I hope there are some runs in the lineup today. We need another good start from Max Scherzer. Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS DODGERS George Springer – DH Shohei Ohtani – DH Nathan Lukes – LF Mookie Betts – SS Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Freddie […]
From Bluebird Banter
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This offseason, the San Diego Padres could be in the market for a starting pitcher, as their rotation is unsettled at this moment. Dylan Cease and Michael King are expected to test the free agent market. The front office has concerns about Yu Darvish’s health status heading into the 2026 season, and Joe Musgrove is […]
From Gaslamp Ball
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On a recent episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast, Kiyan Sobhani and Sara Poraria of SportyTV discussed many topics, including Sara’s many viral pitch-side interviews, the state of both Real Madrid and Barcelona, and much more. The full episode can be found here. Around the time this podcast was published, Vinicius Jr was not starting every […]
From Managing Madrid
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LOS ANGELES — The World Series is now at Dodger Stadium for three games in a row, and for the first of them on Monday night the Dodgers are using the same starting nine players as they used in each of their last seven games. There’s a slightly different batting order in Game 3 than […]
From True Blue LA
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The Washington Nationals season was sunk by many things, but a poor pitching staff was the biggest culprit. They posted a 5.35 ERA as a team, the highest in franchise history. It will take a lot to fix that, including help from outside the organization. However, there is help on the way from a couple […]
From Federal Baseball
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Happy Monday one and all. The Arizona Cardinals sit at 2-5 after seven games, and coming off their bye week they get the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. Should be fun. With the season nearly at the halfway mark, Jess and I thought taking a look at the season as a whole, giving out […]
From Revenge of the Birds
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The World Series is underway, meaning that by the end of the week we’ll officially be out of MLB games to enjoy until 2026. The Yankees, of course, have been out of the running for a bit now and with a couple of weeks to decompress following the end of their season probably have their […]
From Pinstripe Alley
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With Trevor Story’s offseason decision still to be made, the Red Sox should at least be looking at the market to see how they could replace him if he ends up elsewhere. Although there have been reports that Story feels a sense of loyalty to Boston after a comeback campaign in 2025 and three tough […]
From Over the Monster
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Even as the biggest news of late in the sports world is the gambling/rigging/literally-the-mafia-connected NBA scandal , it’s not as if the other major professional sports leagues have been untouched by sports betting-related concerns in recent years.
In Major League Baseball, for example, you had the friend and interpreter for the sport’s biggest star going to prison for crimes related to a sports betting operation, funded primarily by stealing from Shohei Ohtani. More recently, Guardian...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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With Hamzah Sheeraz most recently coming off of a big win over Edgar Berlanga over the summer he’s looking towards the next big fight to come his way. In this video interview with Fight Hub TV, Sheeraz discusses what fights he’s been looking at and what could be potentially on the table for him Sheeraz […]
From Bad Left Hook
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And so now, the World Series moves back to the US, back to the West Coast, back to Los Angeles, for a pivotal Game 3. After an abysmal Game 1, where the offense couldn’t get going, and the bullpen couldn’t get out of its own way, the Dodgers did much better in both respects in […]
From True Blue LA
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We are three weeks into the Arizona Fall League and since it’s a Monday off-day, it’s a good time to check in on the Mesa Solar Sox. The Solar Sox played six games this past week and won two of them and lost four of them. That gives them an overall record of 6-10 and […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue
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On Friday, we began the latest iteration of McCovey Chronicles’ most time-honored tradition: the Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List, in which we will work as a community to rank the top 44 prospects in the San Francisco Giants organization. In the introductory post, everyone selected a group of nominees to choose from, and today […]
From McCovey Chronicles
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Alright, this is getting a little out of hand. Let’s acknowledge the biggest elephant in the room, which were the comments made by Dave Dombrowski about Bryce Harper at his end of season press conference. The comments “hurt” Harper. Those comments that were made were as follows: “Of course, he’s still a quality player,” Dombrowski […]
From The Good Phight
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Junior Caminero was the resounding winner of our recent poll of which player the Rays should offer a contract extension to next. This should come as no surprise! This team’s All-Star and Home Run Derby hero is just 22 years young next season, with 45 homers, 110 RBIs, and a .264/.311/.535 slash line over 154 […]
From DRaysBay
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The official snap counts from the Philadelphia Eagles’ Week 8 win over the New York Giants are in! Let’s take a look and run through some analysis. OFFENSE DEFENSE SPECIAL TEAMS DID NOT PLAY INACTIVE: A.J. Brown, Cam Jurgens, Azeez Ojulari, Adoree’ Jackson, Sam Howell ACTIVE: A.J. Dillon
From Bleeding Green Nation
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Game 3 of the World Series is tonight, with the series shifting to Los Angeles tied 1-1. Meanwhile, rumors abound regarding the Twins’ open manager position, with the top four candidates identified as Derek Shelton, James Rowson, Ryan Flaherty, and Scott Servais. The Past Week on Twinkie Town: Elsewhere in Twins Territory: In the World […]
From Twinkie Town
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The Dodgers and Blue Jays are currently squaring off in the Fall Classic, each in the top five in MLB in payroll spending. The fiscal advantage enjoyed by certain clubs, particularly the Dodgers, is once again prominent. On the other hand, this postseason saw the Brewers – who play in a market smaller than Kansas […]
From Royals Review
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The Mets are hiring Troy Snitker as their next hitting coach, according to reporting by Andy Martino of SNY. The team has not yet confirmed this news. The 36-year-old Snitker is the son of former Braves manager Brian Snitker and has served as a hitting coach in Houston with the Astros for the past seven […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Over at The Athletic today , Jim Bowden ranks the top 50 MLB free agents, together with contract comps, predictions, and potential fits. I will offer my usual caveat: these types of articles can be interesting and informative in a broad sense – giving you a look at the landscape, overviews on players, very rough ideas on contract expectations, etc. You don’t want to take too much away from the specific Cubs mentions, for example, even if it’s interesting to see.
To that end, I will say th...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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At the end of the third week of the Arizona Fall League, the Peoria Javelinas sit in third place. They are two games back of the leading Scottsdale Saguaros and have an 8-7 record after going 2-3 for the week. Starter Maikel Miralles had a bad outing, which raised his ERA to 11.42 after only […]
From Gaslamp Ball
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Several years back, Buster Olney, the former Yankees beat writer for the New York Times and a professor emeritus of baseball journalism, wrote a book called The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. If you haven’t already, you should read it. In his telling, the Yankee dynasty ended in the Arizona desert in 2001, when […]
From Pinstripe Alley
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If you’re in Missouri this Sunday, the weather matches the mood. Mizzou is coming off a heartbreaking loss — literally by inches — to Vanderbilt, which effectively puts them in do-or-die territory for their fledgling College Football Playoff hopes. Even then, the Tigers may have lost starting QB Beau Pribula for the season after a […]
From Rock M Nation
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Welcome to the voting hub for the Fourth Annual Lookout Landing Awards, also known as the Lookies. Here’s the link to vote! Who was Mariner of the Year? What was the best promotional item? It’s all up to you! This is your opportunity to make your voice heard about which players, games, and moments were the biggest […]
From Lookout Landing
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