6:30 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Boston Red Sox fans better hope Tuesday night’s Massachusetts State Lottery numbers read 2-0-0-4, because the prior

7:00 AM ET The 2021 MLB playoffs begin Tuesday night with 10 teams hoping to raise this year’s World Series trophy. The San Francisco Giants enter October with Major League Baseball’s best record, while their rivals in the National League West, the Los Angeles Dodgers, have hopes of becoming baseball’s first repeat champions since the

4:49 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball drew 45.3 million fans this year as fans gradually were allowed to return, down from 68.5 million over 2019 in the last season before the coronavirus pandemic. The Dodgers led the major leagues in home attendance at 2.8 million. They did not start selling

Oct 3, 2021 ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants finally won the National League West without needing to wait for the rival Dodgers’ result on the season’s final day, pounding the San Diego Padres 11-4 on Sunday for a franchise-record 107th victory to top the 1904 New York team. Logan Webb

7:36 PM ET It wasn’t quite as chaotic of an ending as it could have been, but the 2021 MLB regular season is finally in the books. Now, playoff baseball is finally in store. In the AL, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees renew their historic rivalry in what promises to be an

11:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning game set a record once again this year despite Major League Baseball’s efforts to improve pace. The average was 3 hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds for the 2021 regular season, the commissioner’s office said after the regular season ended Sunday. That

5:55 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez left Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Washington Nationals in the sixth inning with a sprained left ankle. Martinez is usually a designated hitter but was playing right field in an NL park. He tripped over second base heading to his position

1:11 AM ET Dave Schoenfield EVER SINCE THE second wild card was added in 2012, baseball fans have been rooting for tiebreaker chaos, with multiple playoff spots still in need of resolution into the final day of the season — or beyond. So far, there have only been three occasions for tiebreaker games required since

5:41 PM ET ESPN News Services PHOENIX — The Colorado Rockies made Bill Schmidt their permanent general manager Saturday, promoting him from the interim GM role he had held since May. The Rockies were 74-85 when they made the announcement before falling to Arizona, 11-2. “After five months, it became increasingly clear that Bill was

5:20 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Derek Jeter put the finishing touches on his Baseball Hall of Fame speech as the plane that carried him to the enshrinement ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, was landing. It was supposed to be done much earlier. Sometimes, things take longer than anticipated. That’s a lesson Jeter is