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Showalter won't return as Mets manager in '24
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Sunday, 01 October 2023 15:19
NEW YORK -- For the fifth time in six years, the Mets are in the market for a new manager.Buck Showalter was fired Sunday after a disappointing season in which baseball's highest-spending team tumbled from contention by midsummer.The 67-year-old Showalter said before Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Phillies that he will not return next year, and a few minutes later…
Ex-Red Sox knuckleballer Wakefield dies at 57
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Sunday, 01 October 2023 15:19
Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year, has died. He was 57.The Red Sox announced his death in a statement Sunday. Wakefield had brain cancer, according to…
What to watch on the final day of the regular season
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Sunday, 01 October 2023 06:54
Chaos? Not quite. Just a couple of days ago, it looked like we would have a wild final day of the MLB season. Even heading into Saturday, we still had the possibility of a three-team tie in the American League West -- with the Toronto Blue Jays potentially matching the AL West teams at 89 wins. But then we set…
Despite loss, Jays lock up wild card as M's fall
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Saturday, 30 September 2023 22:15
TORONTO -- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays are going to the playoffs for the second straight year.Toronto lost 7-5 to Taylor Walls and the Tampa Bay Rays in 10 innings on Saturday, but the Blue Jays clinched an American League wild card when Seattle lost 6-1 to Texas.The Blue Jays were swept by the Mariners in the…
Rangers clinch first postseason berth since 2016
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Saturday, 30 September 2023 22:15
SEATTLE -- It took 161 games, but the Texas Rangers clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 2016 with a 6-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night at T-Mobile Park.The win assured the Rangers of at least a wild-card spot in the American League playoffs.They left the field awaiting the outcome of the Houston Astros' game…
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