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SEATTLE — I was standing next to a colleague in the Lumen Field press box Sunday when he observed that there weren’t any visible Russell Wilson jerseys in the crowd. Current Seahawks players? Everywhere. Past stars ...Read more

Bob Melvin wasn’t the Giants’ problem this season.

No, that would have been streaky hitting, a stripped bullpen and the inability to perform in any way, shape or form when the stakes were truly high.

The Giants found...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There’s something you need to understand in order to fully appreciate the magnitude of baseball’s newly announced Automated Balls and Strikes challenge system.

You may think that it sounds like a no-...Read more

Season after season, they could only watch as someone else took their turn atop a place that seemed to grow farther away with each passing year.

When the 2001 Mariners ran away with the American League West, clinching ...Read more

PHOENIX — The Dodgers might’ve finally found an answer to their long-maddening bullpen problems.

Just use some starters.

In a 5-4 extra-innings win over the Arizona Diamondbacks that lowered their magic number to ...Read more

ANAHEIM — Just when Yusei Kikuchi was about to end his first Angels season on a high note, it ended on a slightly concerning one.

The left-hander came out of the Angels’ 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants hope there will plenty of splash hits over the course of Rafael Devers’ nine years at Oracle Park, and the left-handed slugger started the count Wednesday night with a towering shot that ...Read more

Taj Bradley will enter the offseason on a high note, delivering his best outing in a Twins uniform in his last start of the regular season. The Twins bullpen, well, not so much.

Bradley yielded two hits and one run in six...Read more

CHICAGO — One night after hitting a go-ahead home run to complete a heroic comeback, Francisco Alvarez hit another. But there was no coming back from this one.

The unraveling started long before Alvarez took left-hander...Read more

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge joined a small group of sluggers on Wednesday night, as the Yankees’ captain recorded the fourth 50-homer season of his career in an 8-1 win over the White Sox.

The victory coincided with yet ...Read more

CLEVELAND — It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day.

The Tigers lost their eighth game in a row Wednesday night, beaten by the Cleveland Guardians for the fifth consecutive time, 5-1 at Progressive Field, pushing ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — There are now 59 members of baseball’s 400 Home Run Club. Of those, only 44 are in the Hall of Fame, and with most of those who aren’t the reason is obvious. They were part of the PED discussion ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Paul Skenes needed just 3 1/3 scoreless innings to finish his season with a sub-2.00 ERA and presumably lock up the Cy Young Award. He did that easily.

Then he threw a fourth. And a fifth. And a sixth.

On ...Read more

FRISCO, Texas — When the Dallas Cowboys sent four-time Pro Bowl defensive end Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in a blockbuster trade Aug. 28, the Cowboys’ Week 4 matchup with the Packers one month later on Sept....Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Bucs needed a lift Wednesday, and Chris Godwin delivered it simply by walking onto the practice field.

He moved confidently with no cause for pause from a surgically repaired ankle. He simply has to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Rays lost a combined no-hitter in the seventh inning Wednesday but won the game, beating the Orioles, 6-2.

The bid for what would have been the second no-hitter in Rays history and first in the majors ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — If the Atlanta Falcons’ offense continues to struggle, the calls for veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins will grow louder.

But for now, the Falcons are sticking with Michael Penix Jr. after they ...Read more

TORONTO — Max Scherzer was one of the best pitchers of his generation, a three-time Cy Young Award winner who should cruise into Cooperstown on the first ballot once he’s eligible.

But Wednesday in Toronto, there was ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Schwarber left no doubt.

None of the Phillies did.

Even with Bryce Harper out sick Wednesday night — and J.T. Realmuto (bruised right index finger) and Trea Turner (right hamstring strain) ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts often refers to his bullpen hierarchy as something of a “trust tree,” with branches of relievers he can trust in leverage spots.

Right now, however, it’s been more like a...Read more