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Atlanta Braves finish off Houston Astros for first World Series championship since 1995

HOUSTON — Jorge Soler coiled, and then he unleashed the mightiest swing he could muster. His batted ball would clear the left-field train tracks in Houston’s Minute Maid Park, soaring 446 feet to give his team the early three-run lead that Max Fried would not relinquish. He dropped his bat upon contact, turned to his […]

World Series 2021: Atlanta’s Baby Braves are all grown up — and now they’re MLB champions

ATLANTA — The narrative shape of the 2021 Atlanta Braves, the newly crowned champions of baseball, was not an arc, as fantastical tales tend to be. It was more like a wave chart, with ebbs and flows leading to one final tidal wave that began gathering momentum in early August and crashed ashore on Tuesday […]

Atlanta Braves overcome ‘ups and downs’ to clinch fourth straight NL East title

More satisfying, for sure. After all, the Braves floundered under .500 much of the season. They endured devastating injuries and grim legal issues. They had to essentially rebuild their outfield at the trade deadline. And yet, there they were Thursday night, swigging champagne, puffing on cigars and celebrating an NL East championship. Ian Anderson turned […]

Atlanta Braves sign Charlie Morton to one-year, $20 million extension

The contract includes a $20 million club option for 2023 with no buyout. The 37-year-old right-hander has been a stalwart of the rotation for the first-place Braves, going 13-5 with a 3.47 ERA in 28 starts. Morton leads the team in wins and has provided veteran leadership in a rotation that includes Max Fried and […]

MLB Power Rankings Week 13 – Who is No. 1 at the season’s halfway point?

With the season’s halfway mark arriving in the coming days, the teams at the top of our MLB Power Rankings have started to separate themselves from the pack while those at the bottom might already be thinking about next year as the trade deadline approaches. Did the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros […]

Atlanta Braves’ Huascar Ynoa out ‘a couple of months’ after breaking hand punching bench

ATLANTA — Braves right-hander Huascar Ynoa suffered a broken right hand when he punched the dugout bench following a poor start at Milwaukee on Sunday and is expected to miss “a couple of months,” manager Brian Snitker said Monday. Snitker said Ynoa’s hand was hurting on the flight back to Atlanta, leading to tests that […]

Where does Atlanta Braves pitcher Huascar Ynoa’s big night rank amongst other pitchers who rake?

If only all these position players could hit as well as Atlanta Braves pitcher Huascar Ynoa, we wouldn’t be hyperventilating about the feeble state of batting averages across the major leagues. The 22-year-old right-hander has now homered in consecutive starts, including a grand slam in Tuesday’s 6-1 victory over the Nationals. Two starts ago, he […]

MLB Power Rankings: Dodgers, Padres and then chaos reigns on our Week 3 list

The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres held on to their perch atop our MLB Power Rankings as they prepare to meet again — this time in a four-game series starting Thursday at Dodger Stadium. Putting the two NL West rivals there was the easy part. But putting any order to the rest of […]

Five teams that could take down the Dodgers this season

With that in mind, we asked five our ESPN MLB experts to each pick one team they think is best-suited to take down the Dodgers — in October, when it counts the most. While none of our experts necessarily expect this team to be better than L.A. for the 162-game long haul, they all made […]

By the numbers: The betting impact of the new baseballs

The new balls weigh 0.098 ounces less and are, to be simplistic, less bouncy. (More about the tweaks to the baseballs here.) Prior to the 2019 season, Korean baseball league KBO changed its baseball, making it one gram lighter and slightly reducing the coefficient of restitution (the bounciness). Runs per game dropped from 11.1 in […]

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