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Associated Press:
TV audience for World Series' Game 1 falls 11.4% from 2018 — MLB, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals — The World Series opener between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros narrowly averted setting a record low. — Washington's 5-4 victory Tuesday night averaged 12,194,000 television viewers …
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Connor Grott / UPI:
World Series: Washington Nationals crush Houston Astros to take 2-0 lead — The Washington Nationals remained in full control of the World Series with a 12-3 win over the Houston Astros to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. — The Nationals were locked in a 2-2 tie throughout …
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MLB Baseball News …
Buster Olney / ESPN:
Sources: Astros exec's job status under scrutiny — The Houston Astros' employment of assistant general manager Brandon Taubman has been under evaluation in recent days, according to sources, at a time when Major League Baseball is investigating an incident in the home clubhouse on Saturday.
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MLB Trade Rumors and Sports Illustrated
Mark Townsend / Yahoo! Sports:
World Series Game 2: Nationals dominate Astros to take 2-0 lead — The Washington Nationals came into the World Series as the — biggest underdogs since 2007. — Two games in, they've let the world know that no one should bet against them. — After besting Gerrit Cole in the opener …
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Deadspin, Sports Illustrated and baseballmusings.com
Bill Baer / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Nationals, Astros lineups for World Series Game 2
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Boston Red Sox News …, NBCSports.com and Bluebird Banter
James Wagner / New York Times:
Stephen Strasburg: A King of the Hill Becomes a Lord of the Dance
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baseballmusings.com
Dylan A. Chase / MLB Trade Rumors:
Phillies Hire Joe Girardi — 3:06PM: The Phillies made the news official, announcing in a press release that Girardi has been signed to a three-year contract with a club option for the 2023 season. — 8:03AM: The Phillies are expected to hire former Yankees and Marlins manager Joe Girardi …
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MLB Baseball News …, Phillies Nation and Chicago Sun-Times
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Jim Salisbury / NBCSports.com:
Phillies' 11-year quest to reclaim World Series trophy leads them to Joe Girardi — Ten years ago, John Middleton walked into the quiet visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, patted Ryan Howard on the shoulder and uttered the words that have since become as much a part of him as his square jaw and large bank account.
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MLB Baseball News …, Amazin' Avenue and Sports Illustrated
Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated:
Report: Cubs to Hire World Series Champion David Ross As Manager
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MLB Baseball News …, NBCSports.com, MLB Trade Rumors, Cubs Insider, Viva El Birdos and MLB Daily Dish
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: Cubs hiring David Ross as manager
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USA Today, Royals Review, Chicago Sun-Times, UPI and Daily Herald
Jim Salisbury / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Phillies hire new scouting director Brian Barber away from Yankees
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The Good Phight, Yahoo! Sports, Fish Stripes and MLB Trade Rumors
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB looking into longtime umpire Rob Drake's tweet — Major League Baseball is looking into a since-deleted tweet by longtime major league umpire Rob Drake, according to a league spokesman. — Drake tweeted late Tuesday that he planned to buy an assault rifle “because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way …
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Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Slate, AZ Snake Pit, Deadspin, MLB Baseball News …, NESN.com and New York Post
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Jesse Yomtov / USA Today:
MLB umpire Joe West suing former All-Star Paul Lo Duca for claiming he took bribes
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MLB Baseball News …, Halos Heaven and Deadspin
Bill James Online:
Every Purpose Under Heaven — Hey, everybody. The time has come for me to end my 17-year working relationship with the Red Sox, and I wanted you all to hear about it from me rather than from secondary sources. I'm guessing you may have heard talk about this, but we have reached a point of no return now …
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MLB Baseball News …, baseballmusings.com, Boston Herald and New York Post
Dylan A. Chase / MLB Trade Rumors:
Padres To Hire Jayce Tingler As Manager — According to a tweet from ESPN's Jeff Passan, the Padres will name Rangers coach Jayce Tingler as their new manager (link). — By all indications, this hiring promises to be a pivotal one. The Padres are, after all, an organization wrapping …
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San Diego Union-Tribune, Bleacher Nation, MLB Baseball News …, MLB Daily Dish and Gaslamp Ball
Jason Mackey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Travis Williams as Pirates president makes plenty of sense — There has been no shortage of Gerrit Cole and Tyler Glasnow jokes made at the Pirates' expense this postseason, with fans pointing out a variety of personnel decisions the club has made recently, ones that have gone horribly wrong.
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Bleacher Nation, DKPittsburghSports.com, Bucs Dugout, MLB Trade Rumors and baseballmusings.com
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Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
Pirates, Team President Frank Coonelly Part Ways
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and MLB Baseball News …
Red Sox News:
These are the finalists for Gold Glove Awards — The finalists — three at each position in each league — for the 2019 Gold Glove Awards are being revealed by Rawlings. We'll be updating the list of finalists as they're announced. — AMERICAN LEAGUE — PITCHER
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MLB Baseball News …, MLB Daily Dish, Royals Review and NESN.com
Andy Martino / SNY:
Gerrit Cole to Yankees might be longshot — but expect them to try — Cole more likely for Yanks than Anthony Rendon — Remember last October, when we reported that the Yankees did not plan to strongly pursue Manny Machado, and weren't interested in Bryce Harper at all? — Well, we bring more hopeful news today.
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Bleacher Nation, Elite Sports NY, Pinstripe Alley and MLB Trade Rumors
