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This is where the Dodgers get to be the DodgersIt’s rare when a team is favored to win a series when down 2-1. But then teams that are down 2-1 aren’t usually the Dodgers. Hell, the Dodgers might have still been favored before Game 3. After putting up 15 runs in the span of six outs over two games (four in the 9th of Game 2, 11 in the 1st of Gam...

MLB Playoffs gets signature moment in 'Bellinger-robs-Tatis' — the problem is sport doesn't have enough of themYou knew it as soon as you saw it. It’ll be a play that MLB will try and dine out on for years to come. ...

Division Series playoff preview: Where the hell are we?Baseball has gotten back to the playoff rounds we remember, sort of. The wild card round, which everyone thought was going to produce some real chaos and be totally unfair, only threw up one true upset: the Marlins beating the Cubs, because the Cubs can’t hit fastballs, which seems like it’s on the ...

The Heat is off in NBA Finals; Time is a flat circle in WNBA Finals; Central teams all spit bit in MLB playoffs

The Lakers and Heat did indeed play a basketball game...

MLB’s day of 'madness' an excellent showcase of 2020 baseball* (*not necessarily a compliment)

When the powers that be dreamed up this expanded playoff system/money hunt for baseball’s season-in-a-can, this was the day they were probably thinking of most. The full March Madness treatment in September, with playoff games from noon until past midnight with no break (hell, even the NCAA Tourname...

It’s time to ban the A’s and Twins from MLB playoffs

Major League Baseball began it’s playoff key party yesterday, with all the American League wild-card series kicking off. And while this season has been weird/a farce/an abomination to the sport and really all logic (if you lean that way), there was something exciting about having a day full of baseb...

Padres’ Clevinger could be lost for the postseason, and that sucks

Because it’s 2020, the most fun team in baseball just has to take a gut-punch to its title hopes....

Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It

Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....