A handy guide to this season's mindbending MLB playoff permutations
What? It’s over already? Well, almost: baseball’s marathon regular season is down to just six days, at least in theory. We look in on what’s left to settle...
View ArticleMLB playoff race watch: Rangers vs. Astros battle, Cubs can clinch
Boy, how time flies. The Major League Baseball regular season in 2015 has just 10 days left. We already know three of the playoff teams, as the Royals clinched the AL Central on Thursday night while...
View ArticleWhat's at stake in #Game162 (Kansas City Royals)
(Source: Kansas City Royals) You've got questions? So do all the contenders, especially the eight teams with important and unfinished business. Explaining possible tiebreakers The answers will come at...
View ArticleYankees top Boston to make playoffs
The New York Yankees clinched an American League wild-card spot on Thursday night, ending a two-year absence from the post-season by beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1. Carlos Beltran and rookies Greg Bird...
View ArticleFull day of drama cements postseason picture (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) Sunday featured seven games with postseason implications, and all seven began with first pitches at 3:10 p.m. ET. The permutations and possibilities were...
View ArticleTigers Finish Up At Home With 7-1 Loss To Twins
By DAVE HOGG/Associated Press – Byron Buxton doubled and homered to lead the Minnesota Twins to a crucial 7-1 victory win over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday. Aaron Hicks #32 of the Minnesota Twins...
View ArticleTwins Make Last Push Toward Post Season
– The Minnesota Twins will wind down the regular season this weekend and the team is fighting its way to the post-season. The Twins are one game behind the Houston Astros for the second wild card spot....
View ArticleTwins' game on Saturday changed to 12:05 p.m. start (Minnesota Twins)
(Source: Minnesota Twins) The Twins, who are looking to make the postseason for the first time since 2010, are 1 1/2 games back of the Astros for the second...
View ArticleTwins Rally For 4-2 Win Over Indians, Gain On Wild Card
— Pinch-runner Eduard Nunez scored from third base on a wild pitch and Torii Hunter hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to give Minnesota a 4-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday night,...
View ArticleRoyals have decorated postseason history (Kansas City Royals)
(Source: Kansas City Royals) • Shop for Royals postseason gear Game Date Time Matchup TV Gm 1 Oct. 8 7:30 p.m ET HOU @ KC FS1 Gm 2 Oct. 9 3:30 p.m.ET HOU @ KC FS1 Gm 3 Oct. 11 4 p.m. ET KC vs. HOU MLBN...
View ArticleAstros at Royals, Game 1 lineups: Gomez sits, Gordon batting eighth
Thursday night, the Royals and Astros will kick off their best-of-five ALDS matchup at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium. The Astros are already 1-0 this postseason -- they beat the Yankees in the Wild...
View ArticleMLB playoff race watch: Cards, Jays, Dodgers can clinch Tuesday
We have just six days to go in the 2015 MLB regular season (unless there are ties!). We know the five NL playoff teams and two of the AL playoff teams, but there are still several races yet to be...
View ArticleRoyals aim to balance rest with performance (Kansas City Royals)
(Source: Kansas City Royals) Then again, Yost would like to rest some of his banged-up players. But Yost also has to respect the fact that other teams are fighting the Twins for the second Wild Card...
View ArticleAstros Defeat Royals 5-2 in ALDS Game 1
Denny Medley/USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Collin McHugh and the Astros defeated the Kansas City Royals in a 5-2...
View ArticleAstros lead race for AL wild-card spot
Colby Rasmus’ broken-bat RBI single capped Houston’s rally from a three-run deficit as the Astros retook the lead in a race for the second American League wild-card spot by beating Seattle 7-6. A day...
View Article3 keys for the Royals in Game 4 (Kansas City Royals)
(Source: Kansas City Royals) Here are three keys for Kansas City: • Shop for Royals postseason gear 1. A better Ventura Right-hander Yordano Ventura was amped and confident he would perform well in...
View ArticleTwins' Class of '14 free agents all in one game
If one game can show the jumbled mess that the Twins’ starting rotation is even in the midst of a playoff chase while also encapsulating the dangers of delving into the free agent market in an attempt...
View ArticleAround baseball | Royals see plenty of similarities in Astros
When the Houston Astros had recorded the final out in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, they flooded onto the field in a wild celebration, all their years of losing finally a memory. It looked a whole...
View ArticleClearing up the AL postseason picture (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) That sounds, um, complicated. Thankfully, the extreme mathematical probabilities insist it's less complicated than that, but not by much, really. At least we know...
View ArticleRoyals rally, beat Astros 5-4 to even ALDS at 1 game each
Ben Zobrist hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning, reliever Wade Davis got replay help for a key pickoff in the ninth and the Kansas City Royals rallied from a three-run hole to beat the Houston...
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