
October 9, 2017: ‘Respect me! Respect me!’ Cubs overcome 4 errors to defeat Nationals in Game 3
In Game Three of the 2017 National League Division Series against…

October 11, 2017: Too sick to pitch? Strasburg has last laugh against Cubs in NLDS
For much of the rain-induced two-day gap between Games Three…

October 15, 2017: Justin Turner’s walk-off home run in Game 2 calls up memories of Kirk Gibson
On the night that Kirk Gibson hit his epic home run into the…

October 17, 2017: Dominant Darvish and Dodgers push listless Cubs to the brink in NLCS
The Cubs returned to Wrigley Field for Game Three of the 2017…

October 18, 2017: Cubs show championship swagger to stay alive in NLCS
The Cubs were playing mostly for pride in Game Four of the 2017…

October 19, 2017: Dodgers ace Kershaw shuts down Cubs to clinch NL pennant; Hernandez wallops 3 homers
A year after rallying to beat Cleveland for their first World…

October 24, 2017: Kershaw, Turner, Mother Nature bring the heat for Dodgers in World Series opener
The average high temperature in Los Angeles on October 24 is…

October 29, 2017: Bregman’s walk-off single lifts Astros over Dodgers in a wild Game 5
On October 29, 2017, the World Series was tied at two games…

March 29, 2018: Ichiro returns to the Seattle Mariners
It is not always that a star player gets to “come back” to…

March 30, 2018: After Opening Day defeat, Red Sox rebound with first of nine consecutive wins
On their way to the World Series championship in 2018, the Boston…

April 3, 2018: Shohei Ohtani’s home debut with Angels is a blast (and two singles)
It was Shotime! in Anaheim. Shohei Ohtani, the two-way Japanese…

April 7, 2018: Patience at the plate is a virtue as Phillies beat Marlins, 20-1
Gabe Kapler understood that one of his first priorities in…

April 8, 2018: Shohei Ohtani’s home pitching debut is almost perfect
The crowd in Anaheim for the Los Angeles Angels’ sixth home…

April 9, 2018: Max Scherzer pitches a complete-game shutout, steals his first base
Yes, it was early in the season but the Washington Nationals…

May 4, 2018: Albert Pujols joins the 3,000-hit club
Jose Alberto Pujols took the big leagues by storm when he debuted…

May 6, 2018: Max Scherzer sets another strikeout record as Nationals win on a walk-off
“The great [pitchers] are all competitors, they can hardly…

May 8, 2018: Seattle’s ‘Big Maple’ James Paxton throws a no-hitter on Canadian soil
James Paxton’s reputation for being calm, cool, and collected…

May 15, 2018: Nationals’ Juan Soto homers before his major-league debut
“He has six homers, but this was actually his first. It just…

June 2, 2018: Max Scherzer pinch hits, scores winning run in the 14th inning
It certainly felt like mid-summer to the 39,578 fans attending…

June 22, 2018: Corbin and Nova duel, but Diamondbacks beat Pirates in extra innings
Some 24,843 showed up to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play the…

June 24, 2018: Dodgers set home run record at Citi Field in 11-inning win over Mets
The New York Mets announced in advance that this would be a bullpen…

June 29, 2018: Nationals’ Juan Soto sets hits record for a teenager
The Washington Nationals (41-38) had been leading the NL East…

July 2, 2018: Rare RBIs from Rick Porcello help Red Sox take over first place for good
It had been something like feast or famine for the Boston Red…

July 5, 2018: Nationals rally from 9-0 deficit, thanks to Trea Turner
Sean Doolittle, the Washington Nationals closer, was sitting…