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Ben Rice homers against hometown team in Game 2 \n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Production like Rice showed in his first postseason at-bat might change that equation. According to Baseball Savant, Rice was tied for seventh in the Majors in hard-hit percentage (56.1) and tied for ninth in average exit velocity (93.3), prompting Boone to refer to Rice as “Benny Barrels.”\n\n“I think if you go …

Happy Wild Card Day — one of the coolest days in North American sports. I don’t know how you spent your day Tuesday. But I know how I spent mine … by watching postseason baseball for 11 hours and eight minutes, just so you didn’t have to. I was paying rapt attention when Parker Meadows’ fly ball to center kicked …

By Dennis Lin, Patrick Mooney and Sahadev Sharma CHICAGO — The sudden pop of back-to-back home runs by Seiya Suzuki and Carson Kelly lifted the Chicago Cubs to a 3-1 victory on Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley Field, pushing the San Diego Padres to the brink of playoff elimination. The crowd of 39,114 remained relatively subdued through four innings as Chicago’s …

The Phillies did not send their best lineup out there on Wednesday night. They needed just one win or one Dodgers loss to wrap up a playoff bye, and there were five games left in the season. It was going to happen; they did not really seem to be in a rush. Similarly, the top seed in the NL is …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cal Raleigh hit a pair of homers to match the Seattle season record set by Ken Griffey Jr., Dominic Canzone belted a career-best three homers of his own, and the AL West-leading Mariners routed the fading Kansas City Royals 12-5 on Tuesday night for their 10th consecutive win. Raleigh’s first homer, a 419-foot shot off Michael …

Aaron Judge launched a solo homer after meeting President Trump inside the Yankees’ clubhouse before Thursday’s game against the Tigers.  And, two frames later, Judge went deep again. The Yankees slugger sent his 45th home run of the season 413 feet to left field in the bottom of the first inning to give New York a 1-0 lead. In the …

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A heckler next to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout spent his entire Sunday giving an earful to the visitors, including a nonstop barrage of digs and chirps at Shohei Ohtani for his hitless performance in a portentous weekend series against the San Diego Padres. When Ohtani crushed his 45th homer and delivered the knockout blow in …

Aug 22, 2025, 08:44 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Willy Adames couldn’t have scripted a much better scenario for his return to Milwaukee to face his former team. But the San Francisco Giants shortstop would have preferred a different ending. Adames homered twice Friday as he played at American Family Field for the first time since leaving the Brewers, with one …

TAMPA — It is once again time to embark on another 72-hour craze over the legitimacy of the Yankees’ bats and how they are changing the sport. That is what happens when they club a franchise-record nine home runs, in case you had forgotten. For the second time this season, the first sparking the torpedo bat fad after the second …

TAMPA — The Yankees have trifected the trifecta. For the third time this season, the Yankees crushed back-to-back-to-back home runs — happening in the first inning all three times — on Tuesday night at Steinbrenner Field. Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton each went deep against Rays right-hander Shane Baz in a span of seven pitches. Judge clobbered his …