Red Sox confirm David Price to start Game 2 of World Series  —  BOSTON — Now that David Price has finally won a postseason game, the Boston Red Sox are hoping he can deliver a second win — or a third, if needed.  Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora officially named the veteran left-hander …

After pitching ‘really bad’ for Nationals, Ryan Madson propels Dodgers to World Series  —  MILWAUKEE - Justin Turner stood on a stage in the visitors clubhouse in Miller Park on Saturday night, some kind of alcohol dripping off his full red beard, and scanned the room for reasons …

For Mets and Yankees fans, there's really only one team to root for in this World Series  —  Neither the Yankees nor the Mets are playing baseball anymore this year, but that doesn't mean there's no one to root for when the World Series kicks off in Boston Tuesday night.  Quite the contrary, in fact.

Column: Cubs have followed Red Sox blueprint for success, but they still have work to do  —  Photos of Theo Epstein, the Cubs' president of baseball operations.  —  Chicago Tribune  —  When the new Cubs regime began interviewing managerial candidates in the fall of 2011 …

Red Sox need to fix one key stat to beat Dodgers in World Series  —  The Washington Post  —  The 2018 World Series will feature two of Major League Baseball's top teams.  The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the Fall Classic a year after losing to the Houston Astros in seven games …

Red Sox, Dodgers ride strong two-strike approaches to World Series  —  It's the continual conflict of today's baseball: the arsenal of pitchers with high-powered fastballs facing lineups that often go eight or nine deep with power hitters selling out for home runs and the proper launch angle to mash balls over outfield walls.

Steve Pearce on Manny Machado: 'He's the best person I know in the game'  —  Manny Machado is one of the best young players in baseball, but at the moment he's also its biggest villain.  —  A year ago, his late slide left Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia with a knee injury that may yet prove career-ending.