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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
MLB playoffs 2020: For some Astros, this is their last dance with Houston — Maybe this is how it's supposed to end, in a foreign ballpark in front of cardboard fans, with their roster nowhere near whole. Strange, but perhaps, for a team smeared by one of baseball's biggest cheating scandals, fitting.
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MLB Baseball News …, The Crawfish Boxes, Over the Monster and McCovey Chronicles
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Bradford Doolittle / ESPN:
Tampa Bay Rays add lefty reliever Jose Alvarado to ALCS roster — The Tampa Bay Rays will welcome back a key member of the bullpen for their ALCS matchup with the Houston Astros, which begins Sunday. — Lefty Jose Alvarado was added to the club's 28-player active roster for the championship series.
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The Crawfish Boxes and DRaysBay
Gabe Lacques / Coloradoan Online:
Dodgers vs. Braves NLCS preview, schedule, predictions: Baseball's top two offenses collide in best-of-seven series — ARLINGTON, Texas - They have won eight consecutive National League West titles, the last five under manager Dave Roberts. Yet Roberts does not hesitate when asked …
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Ringer and True Blue LA
ESPN:
Houston Astros to start Framber Valdez in Game 1 of ALCS — Houston Astros lefty Framber Valdez will start Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, while Lance McCullers will start Game 2. — “I feel really proud and really thankful …
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The Crawfish Boxes, AZ Snake Pit, DRaysBay and Associated Press
Nick Selbe / Sports Illustrated:
Hard to Believe Anyone Will Stop the Dodgers This Year — L.A. looks as dominant as it ever has in October. Is this year-gulp-finally the year? — The Dodgers have been here before—several times in fact. They've made the postseason in eight consecutive years and have now advanced …
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Talking Chop, True Blue LA and MLB Trade Rumors
Mirjam Swanson / Daily News:
Lakers win 17th NBA title with dominant Game 6 effort — Now LeBron James will be hailed as Lakers royalty. — “What I've learned being a Laker,” James said as he and his teammates closed in on the franchise's 17th NBA title and his fourth, “is that the Laker faithful don't give a damn what you've done before.”
Marc Topkin / Tampa Bay Times:
Rays have decisions to make before facing Astros — SAN DIEGO — The Rays will start left-hander Blake Snell in Sunday night's opening game of the American League Championship Series against the Astros.And that's about all they were sure of Saturday, as the Rays took time to recover …
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Nick Selbe / Sports Illustrated:
Rays Rally to Beat Yankees, Advance to ALCS — The season-long, heated rivalry between the Rays and Yankees reached its fitting conclusion in Friday night's Game 5 of the ALDS. In the end, it was Tampa Bay who was left standing. — First baseman Michael Brosseau, who came on as a pinch-hitter …
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Tampa Bay Rays on Yahoo! …
Marly Rivera / ESPN:
Tampa Bay Rays will start Tyler Glasnow vs. New York Yankees' Gerrit Cole in ALDS Game 5
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DRaysBay, The Crawfish Boxes, MLB Baseball News …, AZ Snake Pit and The Good Phight
Joe Kay / Associated Press:
Joe Morgan, driving force of Big Red Machine, dies at 77 — CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the Big Red Machine and the prototype for baseball's artificial turf era, has died. He was 77. — He died at his home Sunday in Danville …
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Sports Illustrated, Astros News, Red Reporter, Lone Star Ball, MLB Daily Dish and Phillies Nation
TC Zencka / MLB Trade Rumors:
White Sox Part Ways With Rick Renteria — The Chicago White Sox and manager Rick Renteria has agreed to “part ways,” per The Athletic's James Fegan and others (via Twitter). The club announced the move. The rest of the coaching staff will be determined in consultation with their next manager, per Fegan.
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Sports Illustrated, Chicago Sun-Times and South Side Sox
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Will power: A season that tested Cardinals' resolve and roster reinforced need for more offensive might — In the clubhouse after the Cardinals' season came to a quiet end in San Diego, their bubble burst and players about to scatter for the winter, manager Mike Shildt spoke to the group …
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MLB Trade Rumors
Todd Zolecki / MLB.com:
What to know: Phillies 2020 offseason FAQ — PHILADELPHIA — If you watched the Braves play the Marlins in the National League Division Series, you might have wondered how the Phillies can make enough improvements to pass them next season in the NL East standings. — They have plenty of work to do this offseason.
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Phillies Nation and New York Mets on Yahoo! …
Don Burke / New York Post:
Whitey Ford, Yankees Hall of Famer, dead at 91 — Whitey Ford, who pitched the Yankees to 11 American League pennants and six World Series championships in the 1950s and 60s and who still holds the highest winning percentage (.690) among all modern-day major league pitchers with at least 150 wins …
