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Tony Wolters hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the 13th inning and the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in an epic NL wild-card game. Wolters, a reserve catcher who entered in the 12th, drove in Trevor Story to quiet the Wrigley Field crowd of 40,151 in the longest win-or-go-home postseason game in major league history. Colorado heads to Milwaukee to open a best-of-five Division Series against the NL Central champion Brewers on Thursday. →
Triple Crown contender Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field. Nolan Arenado and the big-hitting Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. October baseball is about to begin with Game No. 163 on Monday. Two tiebreakers on the same →
WASHINGTON — The ball cleared the center field wall, and the sellout crowd roared. Bryce Harper threw his bat in the air, thrust both index fingers skyward and yelled with delight as a shower of streamers rained upon the crowd of 43,698. It →
CHICAGO — Adam Plutko was nervous. Not about making his second major league start, really. It was all about stepping to the plate. Once that was over, everything fell into place. Plutko carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning and Andrew →
CHICAGO — Jose Ramirez turned on a knee-high pitch and launched the Indians toward a lopsided victory. Ramirez hit his 14th homer and Cleveland routed the Chicago Cubs 10-1 on Tuesday night in their first meeting at Wrigley Field since the →
With their bullpen in tatters, things could get ugly -- unless Lindor’s bat can save them →
Reliever Andrew Miller has been placed on the 10-day disabled list by the Cleveland Indians because of a strained left hamstring. Miller grabbed the back of his leg after throwing a pitch to the Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo in the seventh inning Wednesday night and was removed from the game. A two-time All-Star, the 32-year-old left-hander was on the DL twice last season with patella tendinitis in his right knee. He has struck out 17 over 10 scoreless innings in 11 games this year. →
CLEVELAND — Francisco Lindor and Edwin Encarnacion hit sixth-inning home runs and the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 on Wednesday night despite losing relief ace Andrew Miller to a left hamstring injury. Miller grabbed the back →
CLEVELAND — The Indians received a surprisingly poor effort from its top-shelf rotation Tuesday night in the series opener with the Chicago Cubs at Progressive Field. The guy offering up the stinker wasn’t so surprising, though. →