Gerrit Cole already disowning Astros: ‘I’m not employed by team’ HOUSTON — His team just having suffered a stunning World Series Game 7 loss to end its season, Gerrit Cole held an awkward exchange with an Astros media-relations official about speaking to the media late Wednesday night. “I’m not employed by the team,” declared the…
DetailsTopless Nationals fan goes wild in World Series celebration Another fan went topless during the World Series. A man at the Nationals’ ballpark viewing party ripped off his shirt and slid belly-first on one of the dugouts after Washington defeated the Astros, 7-2, Wednesday night in Game 7 in Houston for its first title in…
DetailsAstros’ World Series meltdown is October at its finest HOUSTON — You can make tanking cool. You can draft right, trade right and sign the right free agents. You can run intellectual circles around your competitors. Sometimes, though, no matter how much you do right, you just can’t outmaneuver the randomness of October. In a…
DetailsGusty Nationals are deserving World Series champions HOUSTON — The end made all that came before it worthwhile. All the strikeouts. All the homers. All the questions of the 2019 season, first about the liveliness of the baseball and then about its deflation. Game 7 of the 115th World Series goes into the forever basket…
DetailsNationals win first World Series after rallying past Astros The Nationals have their first championship. Washington beat the Astros, 6-2, in Game 7 Wednesday night in Houston to claim its first title in the franchise’s 14-year history, capping off one of the more memorable World Series in recent years. Anthony Rendon and Howie Kendrick homered…
DetailsThe fallout from controversial Nationals-Astros interference call HOUSTON — As a hitter and first baseman, Ryan Zimmerman gets to see the controversy that interrupted Tuesday night’s Game 6 of the World Series from each side of the aisle. Zimmerman avoided revealing his opinion about the rule that resulted in Nationals teammate Trea Turner being called…
DetailsRays Outright Johnny Davis The Rays have outrighted outfielder Johnny Davis to Triple-A Durham, reports Juan Toribio of MLB.com (link). As a player with fewer than three seasons of major league service time who has never been outrighted, Davis does not have the ability to reject his assignment. This marks the latest chapter in the…
DetailsWhere MLB should stand in the playing loud-tradition conflict HOUSTON — Talk about internal conflict. Late Tuesday night, following an intense, sensory-overloaded World Series Game 6 at Minute Maid Park, both Astros manager A.J. Hinch and Nationals manager Dave Martinez expressed their disapproval over the dueling bat carries by Alex Bregman and Juan Soto. Bregman…
DetailsMets moving closer to naming next manager HOUSTON — The World Series was to end Wednesday night and that brought the Mets closer to concluding their managerial search. Nationals first-base coach Tim Bogar is the lone finalist who has not received a third interview, which mainly revolved around meeting with Fred Wilpon. Bogar’s Nationals were…
DetailsYankees’ search for new pitching coach taking shape The Yankees’ effort to take their pitching further into the analytics age may include them dipping into the college coaching circle. After firing longtime pitching coach Larry Rothschild Monday, the Yankees interviewed Michigan pitching coach Chris Fetter on Tuesday, as first reported by ESPN and interviewed Arkansas…
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