Stadium open to fans for Game 3  —  Public invited into Great Hall with Yankees in Anaheim  —  Yankee Stadium won't be the site of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Monday.  But that doesn't mean it will be empty.  —  The Yankees announced on Sunday that they will open …

Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda wants to play fair  —  He wonders why he was fined last year for throwing at the Phillies, when Brett Myers started it.  —  Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda was fined $7,500 for sailing a pitch over the helmet of Shane Victorino in Game 3 of the NLCS last year against the Phillies.

Davidoff: Holliday Wants New York  —  According to Ken Davidoff Matt Holliday's top two choices this offseason are 1) Yankees and 2) Mets.  —  An anonymous agent told Jon Heyman that Holliday would command 7 years and $150 million dollars last month.  That is a lot of dough for someone …

Against ‘Moneyball’  —  Why the richest teams in the game—and not the lowly A's—are dominating the postseason once again.  —  Whatever happens in the National League and American League Championship series unfolding over the next week or so, one outcome has already been decided …

Why Mike Scioscia won't switch  —  Judging from my blog comments and e-mail, everybody in Southern California, or at least Orange County, is asking the same thing today.  —  Why won't Mike Scioscia move the struggling Vladimir Guerrero out of the cleanup spot?

Sabathia starting Game 4  —  Joe Girardi just announced that C.C. Sabathia will start Game 4 in Los Angeles.  —  Girardi said Sabathia did some work today so that the Yankees could gauge how he feels, and Sabathia feels good.  —  “He's had success going on short rest if you look at last year's numbers …

Erick Aybar's footwork (or lack thereof) creates a giant gray area  —  It didn't end up being the most important play in the Yankees' classic 3-2 ALCS victory on Saturday night, but Erick Aybar's  —  non-tag of second base in the 10th inning definitely ranks as its oddest and most controversial highlight.

Winn's future with Giants uncertain  —  Veteran outfielder will be free agent for first time  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The offseason has barely begun, but Randy Winn already knows that it could be extremely different from any of the previous winters he has experienced.

Humbled Leyritz back in Bronx, making a buck where he can  —  with the Yankees, hardly looked like pinstriped royalty in the hours leading up to ALCS Game 2 last night.  —  Tino Martinez, his former teammate, was scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, as David Cone did before Friday's Game 1.

When the '89 Series left us all a little shaken  —  It was 20 years ago yesterday.  —  The first pitch of the third game of the World Series was less than a half-hour away when the earth moved.  For 15 seconds.  —  I was in the upper deck of Candlestick Park in the “auxiliary press area …

Report: Kim Ng interviews for San Diego Padres' GM vacancy  —  SAN DIEGO — Kim Ng interviewed for the San Diego Padres' vacant general manager's job on Saturday, giving her another chance to become the first female GM in major league history.  —  Ng, the Los Angeles Dodgers' assistant general manager …