PITTSBURGH — It was easy for Pirates fans to feel angry with how Derek Shelton's time here ended.

A 12-26 start to the 2025 season. A seven-game losing streak, not to mention the Pirates plateauing the previous year and frustration evident everywhere you looked.

Yet it wasn't surprising to see Shelton named Twins manager on Thursday, ...Read more

The Dynasty Dodgers.

Shout it as loud as a Will Smith home run, ball soaring, arms flailing, blue immortality awaiting.

Shout it as deep as a Miguel Rojas home run, impossible, unimaginable, unthinkable, forever.

Shout it long enough to line a parade.

The Dynasty Dodgers.

From the doom of a World Series Game 7 sucker punch, two outs from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The wait for the first Dodgers parade of the century: 36 years.

The wait for the second: One year and two days.

On Monday, in celebration of the Dodgers becoming baseball’s first back-to-back champion in 25 years, Los Angeles will throw another party for the Dodgers.

The Dodgers’ 2025 championship parade starts Monday at ...Read more

TORONTO —The march toward destiny was completed a quarter past midnight on Saturday.

It was as unbelievable, indescribable, long-dreamt-of and yet entirely unexpected.

In Game 7 of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers cemented a dynasty with one of the greatest games this sport has ever seen.

They beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 ...Read more

TORONTO — Once again, the planets have aligned for Shohei Ohtani.

The elements are in place for another climactic finish to the latest chapter of this real-life manga, and baseball might never be the same after this.

World Series.

Game 7.

Ohtani will be the Dodgers' starting pitcher and designated hitter.

This is his moment.

He dominates...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A baseball offseason often unfolds like one of those if/then “Choose Your Own Adventure” children’s books, with the path to filling one roster need hinging on a previous move to address another.

In the Phillies’ case, Chapter 1 is all about Kyle Schwarber.

Because if the Phillies re-sign Schwarber — “a real ...Read more

The Dodgers, it turns out, chose the perfect costume in which to parade on this scariest of Halloween nights.

They were dressed as the Dodgers.

The Yoshinobu Yamamoto-firing Dodgers. The Mookie Betts-blasting Dodgers. The energetic-and-inspired Dodgers.

The listless team of the previous two games was gone. The inspired team of the previous ...Read more

TORONTO — On Wednesday, the longest night of the Dodgers’ season got dragged into the early hours of the next morning.

In Game 5 of the World Series, the team had been embarrassed on its home field, getting shut down and outplayed in a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays that sent them to the airport with their season on the brink.

When the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — "In Pittsburgh, we need to be making bets on guys that are not proven." — Pirates general manager Ben Cherington, Sept. 30, 2025

Talk about stoking excitement. Cherington got this offseason off to a rousing start with those immortal words. And they should probably be our guide as we morbidly await a critical offseason and ...Read more

TORONTO — It was a miserably cold, rainy and gray afternoon outside Rogers Centre on Thursday.

Inside the stadium, however, the Los Angeles Dodgers found some rays of emotional sunshine.

No, this is not where the team wanted to be, facing a 3-2 deficit in the World Series entering Game 6 on Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays.

And ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Age didn’t limit Blake Butera as he rose through the Rays minor league department, managing the first of four seasons at 25 — barely older than his players — and being named senior director of player development at 31.

Now 33, Butera is set to be hired as manager of the Washington Nationals — the youngest to lead a big ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Born a Midwesterner, adopted by Southerners, Tony Vitello was a long way from home when he was introduced Thursday as the next manager of the San Francisco Giants. It wasn’t, however, the first time the 47-year-old headed west while charting unfamiliar terrain.

“He was probably the most passionate about baseball of all the...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — New Giants manager Tony Vitello has a message for the fan base on his first day of work:

He has no idea how this is going to go.

“I wish I had an answer in my own head to be honest with you,” Vitello said. “Because as I first got here, I was like, man, there are a lot of unknowns.”

There sure are.

Vitello is the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Was Edgardo Henriquez the best option to pitch to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the seventh inning with two outs and runners on the corners?

Maybe, maybe not.

And that was the problem.

The problem was that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn't have a choice that was clearly better than to place the game in the hands of a hard-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — You remember the stickers. You might even have one yourself.

They were the stickers that reproduced the Fox Sports score box, showing the New York Yankees leading the Dodgers, 5-0, with two outs in the fifth inning of Game 5 of the World Series.

The Dodgers would clinch the series that night, because the Yankees imploded in ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Braves’ manager search now is in its fourth week.

That’s a healthy amount of time to hire a manager. But by the standards of president of baseball operations and general manager Alex Anthopoulos, it’s possibly not enough at all.

That’s why growing speculation that the hire will be Los Angeles Dodgers bench coach Danny ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — I’ve seen plenty of player-management spats over the years, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one as strange as that which has unfolded between Bryce Harper and Dave Dombrowski.

In a span of less than two weeks, we went from Dombrowski comparing Harper to a player who is currently batting third for a team two wins away from...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A week ago, the Dodgers finally seemed to be reaching their long-elusive ceiling.

They had won nine of their first 10 postseason games. They were coupling historic starting pitching with opportunistic offense and just enough production out of the bullpen. They were seen as heavy World Series favorites against the Toronto Blue ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Unfathomable. Unwatchable. Unbearable.

Undone.

The richest team in baseball is splitting apart at the seams, tearing under stress, fraying beyond recognition, collecting on the floor of the 2025 baseball season in heaping piles of disappointment.

Soon, the supposedly greatest collection of players in Dodgers history could be ...Read more

SEATTLE — Seattle Mariners fans can still feel the sting of the Toronto Blue Jays’ comeback win in Game 7 of the ALCS last week. While Seattleites grieve the end of their team’s most successful postseason run ever and put dreams of a World Series debut to bed, it’s not all bad news for the Emerald City.

Approximately 250 Blue Jays fans ...Read more