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Jayson Stark / ESPN:
After Mets KO Arrieta, Madden's punchless Cubs need magic at Wrigley  —  4h - JAKE ARRIETA JACOB DEGROM KYLE HENDRICKS JASON HAMMEL STEVEN MATZ NOAH SYNDERGAARD DANIEL MURPHY CHICAGO CUBS NEW YORK METS + more
Discussion: ESPN
Jon Heyman / CBSSports.com:
Inside Baseball: Will Mets lose Cespedes and Murphy?  Plus notes  —  NEW YORK — Yoenis Cespedes carried the Mets through August, and Daniel Murphy is carrying them now, when it counts most, in October.  —  They are the Mets' No. 3 and 4 hitters in their lineup, the key guys.
Associated Press:
Power Plays: NLCS a Classic Clash Between Young Cubs, Mets
Discussion: Bleed Cubbie Blue
Scott Stinson / National Post:
Toronto Blue Jays ace David Price fails to exorcize playoff demons after seventh-inning explosion from Kansas City Royals  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The playoff monkey on his back was gravely wounded, but David Price could not finish it off.  —  A seventh-inning explosion from the Royals instead turned around …
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Robert MacLeod / Globe and Mail:
Royals beat Blue Jays 6-3 in Game 2 of ALCS
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Barry Zito / The Players' Tribune:
What Baseball Taught Me  —  Baseball is such a wonderfully unique game.  It doesn't require some extraordinary physical prowess or stature as much as it requires hard work.  People of all shapes and sizes have been some of the greatest in our game.  If you saw a professional baseball player sitting …
George A. King III / New York Post:
Yankees fire hitting coach Jeff Pentland  —  TORONTO — When the Yankees assemble in Tampa for spring training, they will have their third hitting coach in three years.  —  “I am not coming back,” Jeff Pentland told The Post Sunday from Arizona.  “When I signed, I was told it was probably a one-year deal.
Jon Heyman / CBSSports.com:
Inside Baseball: Mets' Harvey bought arm insurance; plus more MLB notes  —  NEW YORK — Mets ace Matt Harvey was feeling fine the day after his marvelous, majestic 7 2/3-inning outing in Game 1 of the NLCS — a 4-2 Mets victory — and he's said to be a go for Game 5.
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Neil Best / Newsday:
Matt Harvey, Terry Collins say ace will pitch twice in NLCS
Discussion: Newsday
Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Phillies Outright Domonic Brown  —  The Phillies announced today that former top prospect and starting right fielder Domonic Brown has been outrighted off their 40-man roster.  As a player with more than three years of big league service time, Brown will have the option to elect free agency rather …
Nick Cafardo / BostonGlobe.com:
Who can generate power for the Red Sox?  —  The Sox were last among AL East teams in homers with 161 (15th overall), 71 fewer than the major league-leading Blue Jays.
Matt Eddy / Baseball America:
Minor League Transactions: Oct. 10-16  —  Official minor league transactions, conveyed to Baseball America by Major League Baseball, for the period Oct. 10-16.  Arizona Diamondbacks Signed: RHP Nick Sarianides (re-signed), SS Ildemaro Vargas (re-signed) Released: RHP [...]
Mark Polishuk / MLB Trade Rumors:
Korean Righty Seung-Hwan Oh Interested In Move To MLB  —  Korean relief ace Seung-Hwan Oh has told his agents to explore a new contract with a Major League Baseball club, according to a report from Kyung-Don Joo and Yeong-Seok Lee report of the Korea JoongAng Daily.
Joel Sherman / New York Post:
$310M Dodgers go bust: What's the future for these 3 big names?  —  Clockwise from left: Don Mattingly, Yasiel Puig and Zack Greinke  —  The Dodgers were a Hollywood blockbuster gone wrong.  —  The budget was bloated and the cast full of stars.  But, ultimately, the script was not good enough.
Bob Kravitz / WALV-TV:
Irsay feeling surprisingly good as the Patriots' Revenge Tour comes to Indy  —  INDIANAPOLIS -  —  This was Friday, and if owner Jim Irsay was nervous or shaking in his boots at the prospect of the New England Patriots' arrival here tonight, he wasn't showing it.
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