Shohei Ohtani closed out a 3-2 win with a strikeout of Mike Trout as Japan won its first WBC title since 2009. 2yJeff Passan MLB Japan beats USA for WBC title: Best moments and takeaways from thrilling finale The World Baseball Classic came down to a Shohei Ohtani vs. Mike Trout show...
2016: The Cubs ended the longest drought in World Series history, winning their first Fall Classic since 1908. 2020: In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Series is played at a neutral site (Globe Life Field in Arlington) for the first time. • All-time World Series...
Last World Baseball Classic appearance: 2009 (finished 15th) The home of legends like Mariano Rivera and Rod Carew, Panama is the No. 1 favorite to make it to the main pool in March. It helps that they'll also be playing in front of their home crowd. This year's team is not short...
These champions are, officially, canon, but in all three seasons the talent in the league was depleted. By the end of WWII,about 500 major leaguers had served-- in a league with 400 active players at any given time -- and the standings were weird. The Browns,baseball's worst major le...
Bobby Mote, who finished third in the average and the world standings this year, was the last bareback rider to win back-to-back world championships in 2009-10. Feild's father, Lewis, also accom- plished the feat in 1985-86. Cooper joined his father in the club of cowboys who have...
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We’ll see what surprises the race to the postseason holds as the World SeriesMLB futuresbetting begins in earnest at the end of the World Baseball Classic and spring training. Can the New York Yankees win the World Series for the first time since 2009? Are the Mets forever snake-bit foll...
Louis Blues never won the Stanley Cup prior to June 2019, but they were dead-last in the NHL standings in January. If those odds weren't enough, they then went into Boston's TD Garden for a Game 7 against the six-time Cup champs. Behind goals from MVP Ryan O'Reilly, Alex ...
Boston was in July and the Yanks held a significant lead in the standings, the shortstop's bloodied, battered face epitomized that no matchup with the Sox was insignificant. The catch prevented two runs from scoring in a tie game in the 12th inning, and the Yankees won in the 13th. ...
Florida had qualified for the playoffs. Worse, Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga (citing financial reasons, of course) began dissembling his team of stars even before the champagne stains had been removed from the clubhouse carpet. Predictably, the Marlins soon fell to the bottom of the standings. ...