1:49 AM ET PITTSBURGH — At about the time the Milwaukee Brewers were popping champagne Wednesday night for another postseason appearance, Chicago Cubs reliever David Phelps was throwing his second consecutive wild pitch, allowing the lead run to score in a 4-2 Cubs defeat to the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. It would be the team’s eighth

10:35 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers continued their scorching September with their 19th win of the month Wednesday, clinching a postseason berth and eliminating both the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs in the process. The Crew’s 9-2 victory at Cincinnati brought the team to 88-70, a far cry from Sept. 5, when Milwaukee was

8:00 AM ET It was a sweltering Monday afternoon in St. Louis — mid-90s and Missouri humid, with a real-feel temperature hitting 106 degrees. It was only a few days before the beginning of autumn, when in baseball we turn our attention to the playoffs. In St. Louis, they apparently had not gotten the memo,

4:58 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Ildemaro Vargas had a game-tying pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning on Tuesday and then got singled with the bases loaded in the 19th at 1:34 a.m. local time on Wednesday to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Carson Kelly and Nick

10:49 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Trea Turner‘s go-ahead grand slam in the sixth inning lifted Washington to a 6-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies for a doubleheader sweep Tuesday that helped the Nationals clinch an NL wild card, capping quite a turnaround for a team that was 19-31 in late May. “We knew

11:20 AM ET The home run ball that marked the 2,000th career RBI for Albert Pujols has finally landed in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Ely Hydes, the Detroit Tigers fan who wound up with the ball at Comerica Park on May 9, at first decided he wanted to keep the ball. Then, after

2:04 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks made it obvious they appreciated Paul Goldschmidt in his return to the desert, honoring him with a tribute video before the game and multiple ovations throughout the evening. Clearly, everyone thought this night was a pretty big deal. Except for the man being honored. The

8:56 PM ET The Chicago Cubs enter the final week of the regular season still holding out hope that they can chase down an NL wild-card spot but knowing they likely will have to do it without slugger Kris Bryant. Bryant’s agent, Scott Boras, wishes that weren’t the case and believes Major League Baseball is

11:59 AM ET Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost has announced he will retire at the end of the season. Yost, 65, steps down as the winningest manager in franchise history with 744 victories. He also led the Royals to a World Series championship in 2015, the franchise’s second. Since that title year, though, the

11:19 PM ET CHICAGO — There was a time when the sight of rain at a Chicago Cubs game would elicit a smile and bring back a happy memory. After all, rain is associated with the team’s 2016 World Series championship, as much as anything that went down in their Game 7 victory over the