LOS ANGELES -- As far back as December -- after Shohei Ohtani signed with Los Angeles, and San Diego traded Juan Soto and the entire baseball world seemed ready to anoint the Dodgers division champions -- the Padres brazenly stated their goal of winning the National League West. In mid-Jun...
Finley makes Dodgers NL West championsTONY JACKSON
into the postseason. then, the dodgers play only division opponents the rest of the way. the diamondbacks have the toughest stretch of the three. they still play a series in houston against the reigning world series champions and host a chicago cubs team that's trying to win the nl cent...
First, Mets fans got to savor the East crown and look forward to the first NL Championship Series against Atlanta, the NL West champions (in a feat of geographical tomfoolery that wasn’t rectified until the Braves joined the NL East in 1994). Before 1969, when there were no divisions...
The#Philliesare the 2024 National League East champions! First division title since 2011. 12th division title in franchise history.pic.twitter.com/fL204Y7IwX — Jeff Kerr (@JeffKerrCBS)September 24, 2024 After the 2011 NLDS defeat, Philadelphia went on an 11-year postseason drought. That end...
Kershaw has a strong case. Despite missing several starts with a back injury early this season, he went 21-3 in 27 outings for the NL West champions with 239 strikeouts and a 1.77 ERA — the lowest in the National League since 1995. ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- It took a franchise-record 107 wins, but theGiants are National League West championsfor the first time since 2012. Logan Webb was brilliant on the mound andhit a two-run homer Sunday, leading the Giants to an 11-4 win over the San Diego Padres that locked up...
Walker Buehler will start for the Dodgers (91-71) as the defending NL champions try for a sixth straight West title. Rich Hill (11-5) pitched two-hit ball for seven innings to keep the playoff-bound Dodgers on a roll. The lefty found out when he woke up just before 8 a.m...
Detroit Tigers – 1968 World Series champions. 1968 was known as “the Year of the Pitcher”. Pitching was absolutely dominant, to the point where only one batter in the entire American League hit over .300, and the overall batting average in the AL was an all-time low .230. Meanwhile ...
This one brought on some Oct. 3 memories for the storied franchise, now determined to create some more in October like the 2010, '12 and '14 World Series champions with some of the same faces of today in Posey, Brandon Crawford and injured slugger Brandon Belt. ...