The Indians, once hovering around .500, have rattled off 18-straight wins while the once-mighty Dodgers have fallen, losing 10 in a row.
As Dodgers fans nervously sweat out September, counting down the days and anxious about whether the greatest collapse in baseball history really is happening, the Dodgers are not the only team putting their fans on edge. The Dodgers should clinch a playoff spot any day now. The Chicago Cubs might see
The power of the Clinchmas Spirit was on full display at Nationals Park on Sunday as afternoon turned to evening. After the Nationals defeated the Phillies, 3-2, all eyes turned to Atlanta, where a Braves win over the Marlins would clinch Washington's fourth National League East division title in
Scott Alexander looked like he might get a chance to fill the ninth-inning role for the Kansas City Royals ... until he worked the sixth and seventh innings Sunday. Blake Parker looked like he had the closer gig all locked up for the Los Angeles Angels ... until he blew a save, got a week off and found
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and I finally realized the problem: I haven't been wearing my lucky Dodgers socks. Random thoughts The Dodgers have lost 15 of their last 16 games, and some will tell you that it doesn't matter, because a lot of
It's official: the Philadelphia Phillies will miss the playoffs for a sixth consecutive season. Though the streak is not an indictment of general manager Matt Klentak -- he's been on the job for roughly two years -- the Phillies' drought will likely include at least one more October. Of course
Indians manager Terry Francona said the rookie center fielder was injured when Orioles first baseman Chris Davis stepped on his hand.
The Cleveland Indians' remarkable 18-game winning streak has earned them the No. 1 spot in USA TODAY Sports' baseball power rankings. The AL Central leaders overtook the sluggish Los Angeles Dodgers, who are 1-15 in their last 16 games and vacate the No. 1 spot for the first time in seven weeks
Two streaks, dissected for your enjoyment.
Which will come first, a Cleveland Indians loss or a Los Angeles Dodgers win? That's not the question we expected to be asking with three weeks to go in the regular season, but it's become one of the biggest storylines as one team has rattled off 18 straight wins and the other is in a complete
The Cubs winning the NL Central was starting to feel inevitable, given how much more they've looked like the terrifying Cubs of 2016 in the second half of the season. It feels a little less inevitable now, even if it's still the most likely course of action, thanks to the Brewers and the Cardinals
Joe Nicholson / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters Through the remainder of the regular season, we'll take a look at how the night's action impacts the playoff races, highlighting which teams' postseason odds went up or down significantly. The Los Angeles Angels aren't going to squander another
The champagne is poured, the beers consumed, and the temporary carpet in the Nationals clubhouse all but destroyed. The division is won, though it was never in much doubt, and the Nationals have not played a game with genuine urgency for quite some time. But as Max Scherzer said of the Nationals'
ESPN.com Do fans feel there's a dynasty in the works at Wrigley? Or is there an outbreak of agita on the North Side? Vote below! Week 23: Last week's record: 2-5. Overall record: 77-66 (first in NL Central). Weekend update: The Cubs' division lead is down to 2 after a weekend sweep by the
ESPN.com Just as the Astros ruled the No. 1 slot and seemed set to own it forever, and just as they were eclipsed once the Dodgers seemed impossible to top when they were inspiring consideration for whether they'd set the all-time single-season record for wins, we have a new No. 1. Riding the kind
Hailey Dawson was born with Poland syndrome, a condition that resulted in her not having a right pectoral muscle. This affected the growth of her right hand. She has a pinky finger, a thumb and three what her family call "nubbins" where the other fingers would have grown. Not having all five
David Schoenfield ESPN Senior Writer Close Senior writer of SweetSpot baseball blog Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Follow on Twitter There are, I suppose, two ways to look at the Los Angeles Dodgers' season if you're a fan of the team: 1. 92-51 is still the best
Jerry Crasnick ESPN Senior Writer Close ESPN.com senior writer Author of "License to Deal" Former Denver Post national baseball writer Follow on Twitter Derrick Hall has seen a sartorial evolution in 12 years as Arizona Diamondbacks president. When he joined the team's front office in 2005
Since the Orioles stopped playing the brand of baseball that propelled them to owning the major leagues' best record in mid-May, their most basic consolation was that no matter how far they fell, it was never too far out of the playoff race. This weekend's three-game sweep, which dropped them
One question sprang to Dusty Baker's mind when he first laid eyes on Matt Albers in February. “Hey, man, is he in shape?” Baker wondered aloud at the Washington Nationals' spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Fla. Baker later pulled the book on the thickset right-handed reliever and realized
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