The Dodgers, though, did not “buy the championship.”. The Dodgers were led by a collection of journeymen and players acquired through trades. It was an incredible reflection of the work of the coaching staff and front office to transform players who were underperforming in their careers to stalwart pieces of a championship-winning team. 

The MLB playoffs loom right around the corner, so it is now time to speculate.

Regardless of whether one is a baseball fan or not, the third game of this year’s World Series between Chris Sale’s Boston Red Sox and Clayton Kershaw’s Los Angeles Dodgers wasn’t just a good baseball game. It was a great game. Period.

The Student Life sports staff leans Red Sox four, Dodgers three––will that be the outcome of the Fall Classic as well?

Much like their diminutive second baseman, the Astros meteoric rise started small.

A class of two hundred-win teams, one delivering on the promise of a rebuild, the other finally besting a postseason slump.

When I was a little girl, I loved to hear my dad talk about baseball. He grew up watching the legends: Ernie Banks, Billie Williams, Ron Santo.

Less than six months after winning its first sports title in over 50 years, the city commonly referred to as “The Mistake on the Lake” is stepping up to the plate for a chance at another championship and to prove itself a legitimate sports city.

hat do you get when you try to predict a playoff series between “the best team in baseball by a long-shot” Chicago Cubs and a banged-up Cleveland Indians roster that somehow sailed through the postseason with unlikely performances from its pitching staff?

I am still ready to party like it’s 2006, because the Mets are back in the playoffs for the first time since Beltran took that called third strike.