9:28 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — During 18 major league seasons as a catcher and four more as a manager, Brad Ausmus developed a strong gut instinct about nearly everything that happens on a baseball field. While spending the past year out of a dugout, Ausmus developed a deeper understanding of how traditional

2:37 PM ET Associated Press CINCINNATI — David Bell buttoned his Reds jersey with the No. 25, the same one worn by his grandfather and his father. Buddy Bell stood in the back of the room, watching the scene as a proud papa. In the front row was young Gus Bell, named for the grandfather

1:15 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels announced the hiring of Brad Ausmus as their new manager on Sunday. Ausmus, 49, was already working in the Angels’ front office. He managed the Detroit Tigers from 2014 to 2017, with a career record of 314-332. The Tigers won the American League Central title in his first

10:39 AM ET The Cincinnati Reds have hired former infielder David Bell to be their next manager, the team announced Sunday. Bell agreed to a three-year contract with a team option for 2022. He will introduced at a news conference Monday. Bell joins the Reds organization for the second time. He worked for four seasons

9:00 AM ET The Dodgers have been playing baseball since 1884, the Red Sox since 1901, and this marks just the second time they have played each other in a postseason series and the first time in 102 years — when the former was known as the Brooklyn Robins and Babe Ruth pitched all 14

2:15 AM ET MILWAUKEE — After seven fascinating games full of strategy, game-changing moments, constant substitutions and occasional testiness, talent simply won out in the end. Game 7 slugging and a little bit of swagger gave the Dodgers the lead they needed to finally get past the Brewers and return to the Fall Classic. The

Craig Counsell, raised in Milwaukee, has vivid memories of the 1982 Brewers team that advanced to the World Series and his superstitions — “routines,” he insists — around them. He walked the right-field ramp at County Stadium in the seventh inning every time his team needed runs, including when Cecil Cooper came up with the

1:02 PM ET Houston Astros star second baseman Jose Altuve underwent surgery Friday on his injured right knee, according to MLB.com. Altuve served as Houston’s designated hitter in the final three games of their five-game ALCS loss to the Boston Red Sox because of what had been described as a bruised knee. Astros manager AJ

3:11 AM ET MILWAUKEE — It has become a trope to call the National League Championship Series a chess match, and it certainly is that. But for Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, this was no little move. It wasn’t pushing a pawn ahead a square. It was moving your knight, right from the start,

7:36 PM ET Joe Girardi has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Cincinnati Reds‘ managerial vacancy, according to multiple reports. Girardi reportedly was one of three candidates to be considered for second interviews, along with Brad Ausmus and David Bell. The Athletic, which first reported Girardi’s withdrawal, reported Friday that he plans to remain