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MLB Power Rankings Week 14: A battle atop the AL East
With All-Star week festivities in the rearview mirror, the second half of the 2023 season is off to a bang. MLB had a night of offense to remember on Tuesday, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs — a level of offensive production not seen in 129 years. Despite putting up 13 runs, the major league-leading […]
Continue readingSecond-half preview, rankings, playoff odds for all 30 MLB teams
This season has been anything but predictable. Sure, there are teams that you expect to contend every season, like the Braves, Yankees, Dodgers and Astros. But the first half of the 2023 season was also full of surprises. The Rangers shot up the standings with a sky-high run differential thanks to a powerhouse offense. The […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings: A new No. 1 heading into All-Star break?!
As we pass the halfway point of the 2023 season and prepare for next week’s All-Star festivities, a big change has come at the top of our power rankings. After holding the No. 1 spot for 10 consecutive weeks, the Rays’ long-standing reign atop our list has come to an end. Who usurped them? Baseball’s […]
Continue readingDodgers’ Julio Urias throws 4 innings in 1st rehab start
Urias threw 60 pitches, allowing two hits and an earned run against Lake Elsinore. He walked one batter and struck out eight. Urias, the 2022 National League ERA champion, hadn’t pitched since May 17 as he recovers from a left hamstring strain. He was being lined up for a return during a June 9-11 series […]
Continue readingClayton Kershaw still holding the Dodgers together
Next pitch. Next pitch. Next pitch. Kershaw has built a Hall of Fame career, a legacy, out of ignoring context and channeling his energy on the task directly in front of him. Out of focusing solely on “next pitch,” whatever that represents at a given time, again and again. On this Tuesday night, in the […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings: D-backs up, Dodgers down in wild NL West
They’ve been ahead in the standings for a while — now the Arizona Diamondbacks have at last leapfrogged the Los Angeles Dodgers in our MLB Power Rankings. That’s only part of a wild week for the National League West, though, which sends a third team into our top 10 — the red-hot San Francisco Giants. […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings: Another AL East team joins the top 5
The Tampa Bay Rays still rule, but the Baltimore Orioles are coming on fast in this week’s MLB Power Rankings. The O’s — led by American League Player of the Week Gunnar Henderson — move up a spot to enter the top five, one of four AL East teams in the top 10. Meanwhile, the […]
Continue readingSnapshots and moon shots: Padres’ Polaroid tradition continues in NLCS
Two were added in the wake of their dramatic Game 2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday afternoon. One features Brandon Drury and Josh Bell, the two men who ignited a dramatic comeback. The other is headlined by Manny Machado, who used both his bat and his glove to secure the 8-5 win that […]
Continue readingDodgers leave RHP Craig Kimbrel off NLDS roster vs. Padres
LOS ANGELES — Craig Kimbrel, an eight-time All-Star with 394 career saves, was left off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ initial postseason roster on Tuesday, a somewhat expected outcome given his season-long struggles in the ninth inning. The Dodgers are expected to go with a closer-by-committee this month, beginning with a National League Division Series matchup […]
Continue readingJulio Urias to start Game 1 of NLDS for Los Angeles Dodgers
Clayton Kershaw will face former teammate Yu Darvish in Game 2, with neither team settling on its rotation thereafter. The Padres’ order was widely assumed coming off their wild-card-series win over the New York Mets, but the Dodgers were toying with the idea of flipping Urias and Kershaw. The latter scenario would have given the […]
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