When will the postseason awards be announced? The schedule: Monday, Nov. 12: AL and NL Rookie of the Year awards Tuesday, Nov. 13: AL Cy Young Award Wednesday, Nov. 14: AL and NL ... Read More

There’s been no official announcement, but when Grady Little stepped down as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, it became readily apparent that their next manager will be ... Read More

The first interesting trade of the offseason went down Monday, when the Atlanta Braves sent veteran shortstop Edgar Renteria to the Detroit Tigers. It’s an interesting move, and I put ... Read More

My, how things have changed in Boston. Once cursed, now a juggernaut. And they're the kings of streaks, twice over. In 2004, the Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 deficit, winning the ... Read More

Much has been made about how the most successful teams in the playoffs after one round were small-market, small-budget teams. So much for that, as it looks as if the Boston ... Read More

The Red Sox bashed away in an American League-style game in Game 1. They won in the NL way on Thursday in Game 2, 2-1. The Red Sox scored their two ... Read More

Make it 21 out of 23 for the Rockies. But the good news for Rockies fans: It's only one game. "Not sure what the final score was," Colorado's Todd Helton told ... Read More

Rust or rest: The Rockies haven't played in nine days heading into Game 1. The Red Sox have had two days off – perfect to catch their breath and get ... Read More

Red Sox manager Terry Francona has a couple of big decisions to make with his pitching staff, and Rockies counterpart Clint Hurdle has one tough call as well. After Josh Beckett ... Read More

Put the backs of the Boston Red Sox to the wall, and they respond again. Forcefully. After the Cleveland Indians took a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series, they ... Read More

For the most part, this has been a refreshing playoffs with young players rising to the occasion, providing a needed infusion of new faces onto the big stage. Until Saturday, that ... Read More

Did Paul Byrd cheat? It's in a gray area, for sure, tugging between a right to medical privacy and the public's right to know whether an athlete is cheating or ... Read More

It could be nothing. Just a momentary lapse. Just an off-night against Josh Beckett and his amazing ability to be dominant in the postseason. Or it could be the beginning of ... Read More

It seemed odd to take a day off from postseason baseball on Wednesday. It's the first time that MLB has scheduled an off day in the middle of a series ... Read More

An old-fashioned pitcher's duel turned sour in the fifth inning again for the Boston Red Sox, who teeter on the brink of elimination following the Cleveland Indians' 7-3 victory in ... Read More

Never before has so much attention been paid to a bunch of October meetings of a first-round playoff victim. But a convention of New York beat writers are hanging out in ... Read More

Some people still long for the good old days, when baseball was the only major pro sports league that didn't reward second-place teams. But that ship sailed in 1994, and ... Read More

Max Ramirez might turn out to be a big-league catcher one day. He hit .308 with 16 home runs in high-A ball this past season. But the Cleveland Indians aren't ... Read More

The country at large is missing it, but the Colorado Rockies' run through the postseason is bordering on historic. Colorado holds a 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series. The ... Read More

That Eric Gagne trade doesn't look so hot this morning in Boston. Back in July, it looked like a genius move to bring in another closer to the Red Sox to ... Read More

With the Red Sox's domination in the first game of the American League Championship Series and the Rockies' 2-0 lead in the National League, it's getting easier to project what ... Read More

There are plenty of great storylines for the American League Championship Series, which begins Friday night in Boston. The Cleveland Indians are a kind of poor man's version of the Boston ... Read More

It's a breath of fresh air with two teams not used to the spotlight in the National League Championship Series. They are the two teams with the best records in ... Read More

Give all the credit to the Cleveland Indians for knocking the New York Yankees out of the postseason in the first round for the third consecutive year. But manager Joe ... Read More

Like a scene out of The Bronx Is Burning, here comes George Steinbrenner. There was a rare Steinbrenner interview in today's Bergen (N.J.) Record, and the Boss is none too pleased ... Read More

It's the matchup we all expected, right? The fairy tales continue. If anybody thought in July that the National League Championship Series would feature the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, they're ... Read More

A $200 million baseball team can get unraveled by a bunch of harmless bugs? And this is the way that Alex Rodriguez and Joe Torre could finish up their tenure ... Read More

After the first two days of the baseball postseason, a few truths that have been unearthed: 1. That cross-country trip didn't cool off the Rockies. The Colorado Rockies have continued to ... Read More

The American League Central champion Cleveland Indians (96-66) tied the Boston Red Sox for the best record in the AL and return to the playoffs for the first time since ... Read More

Is this finally the year for the National League Central champion Chicago Cubs (85-77)? They'll try to end their 99-year championship drought this postseason. But the first hurdle is a ... Read More

An intriguing series that matches up two outstanding overall teams begins a series in Boston on Wednesday evening. The American League West champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (94-68) are ... Read More

Two teams with long postseason droughts are back in the playoffs. On Wednesday afternoon, the Colorado Rockies will play in the postseason for the first time since 1995, and the ... Read More

Matt Holliday slid home -- or at least close enough to home -- to send the Colorado Rockies to the playoffs for the first time in 12 years with an ... Read More

Who figured the Colorado Rockies had time and the talent to muster this kind of comeback? (I certainly didn't.) The Rockies won 13 of their final 14 games to force a ... Read More

If Sunday was Tom Glavine's final game... well, it will certainly be remembered. Glavine, a 303-game winner and a certain Hall of Fame choice five years after his retirement, had the ... Read More