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SI:AM | One Thing to Watch in Each Wild-Card Series

MLB’s expanded playoffs get underway on Friday with the four wild-card series.

Sports Illustrated

2022 MLB playoffs: ranking the title contenders from first to worst

Will an expanded Wild Card round lead to an unexpected upset or will one of the established baseball juggernauts emerge as the World Series winners?

The Guardian - US

Man walks free over Xmas day killing

Hudson Martin has been acquitted of manslaughter by a Supreme Court jury, after he fatally hit a Victorian grandfather with a baseball bat on Christmas Day.

AAP

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How will the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler react to the playoff stage? His former coach knows.

ST. LOUIS — In bracing for his first career postseason start, Zack Wheeler recounted his most nerve-racking moments on a baseball field. He thought about the 2012 Futures Game in Kansas City and the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver. He remembered the pterodactyls churning in his stomach, the pounding in…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bill Shaikin: Forget Frick. Time to put Vin Scully's name on this award.

LOS ANGELES — The postseason won't be the same without Vin Scully. The last time we had one without him, "the postseason" was simply called "the World Series," won by the most celebrated team in baseball history: the 1927 New York Yankees.

Los Angeles Times

The Orioles and their fans set sights on 2023 playoffs, although dueling Angelos family lawsuits cloud offseason forecast

The Major League Baseball playoffs begin this weekend. Next year, Orioles fans expect their team to be in them.

Tribune News Service

Ron Cook: Terry Francona is riding high after 'one of the best managing jobs in the history of baseball'

So what does the baseball world think of the job Terry Francona did managing the low-budget Cleveland Guardians to another American League Central division title and a wild-card matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday afternoon?

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Sam McDowell: The Royals fired Mike Matheny. To fix 97 losses, they’ll need to change more than that.

A statistic popped into my Twitter feed late Wednesday, though not as late as the Royals were sending out tweets, and it caught my attention.

Tribune News Service

White Sox year in review: It wasn’t pretty

The tragic tale of the 2022 White Sox began last October when the Astros exposed them in the ALDS, leaving no doubt where the Sox stood in baseball’s hierarchy of teams.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Dodgers falling short of a World Series title would be one of the biggest letdowns in sports

After a historical season, anything less than a title would be a major disappointment.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Inside the MLB Culture Wars That Led to Joe Maddon’s Firing

How could a World Series-winning manager with 19 years of experience lose his job over a 12-game sample?

Sports Illustrated

How Aaron Judge became a Yankee: From small-town California kid to Bombers superstar

NEW YORK — Mike Batesole records every Yankee game. He prefers to watch each at-bat by his former player, Aaron Judge, live and in the moment, but Batesole’s pretty busy as the head baseball coach at Judge’s alma mater, Fresno State.

Tribune News Service

Shakeia Taylor: Barry Bonds is the real home run record holder — and nothing can change that until someone breaks it

CHICAGO — In 2001, 37-year-old Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs, beating Mark McGwire’s single-season record of 70 set three years earlier. You probably remember it happened, whether you watched it or not.

Chicago Tribune

How a few empty seats changed the course of history for Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run ball

ARLINGTON, Texas — On the video that he recorded and later tweeted, it’s clear that Ashin “Shane” Rangani had an extraordinary view of Aaron Judge’s historic 62nd home run.

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Miami Herald

Don Mattingly reflects on Miami Marlins managerial tenure as team sends him out with a win

The 49-second video played in the middle of the fifth inning Wednesday on the scoreboard looming over center field at loanDepot park. It began with then-Miami Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill draping a jersey over Don Mattingly as he was introduced as the organization’s manager in 2016. It…

Tribune News Service

What makes Aaron Judge special? MLB’s top sluggers weigh in as Yankee great chases history.

NEW YORK — Jim Thome’s 14-year-old son, Landon, has come down to breakfast at the Thome household most mornings this baseball season with a question for his old man, the fearsome Hall of Fame slugger who smacked 612 home runs during his playing career:

Benzinga

Aaron Judge Hits 62nd Home Run, Fan Who Caught It Tied To Stock Market

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge made history on Tuesday night with his 62nd home run hit in the 2022 season. Judge may also have made someone who manages money for a living a new millionaire.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ronald Acuña Jr. had the most wholesome reaction as he waited to catch NL East-clinching fly ball

Now, THAT is pure joy.

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Chicago Sun-Times

No hint that Aaron Judge is dirty, but shouldn’t the steroid era have made us more skeptical?

Yankees star sets American League record with 62nd home run.

The Independent UK

Man turns down $2m after catching Aaron Judge’s record setting baseball

“That’s a good question’, says investment firm VP who caught Yankee star’s 62nd home run

Daily Mirror

Man proposes with lollipop ring in stadium before she slaps him across the face

On Sunday, one lucky girl thought she was about to become engaged to her boyfriend during the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball in front of thousands of fans

Sports Illustrated

Dennis Eckersley Puts Bow on 20-Year Run in the Red Sox Booth

What’s next for Eck? The future remains unclear, but his presence will be sorely missed.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Aaron Judge Finally Did It

He was running out of games to pass Roger Maris but came through with No. 62 in Game 161.

The Independent UK

Home run hands! Dallas fan catches Judge's 62nd homer on fly

Dallas baseball fan Cory Youmans made the catch of a lifetime, snagging the ball that New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit for his American League-record 62nd home run

Chicago Sun-Times

Yankees’ Aaron Judge blasts 62nd home run to set American League record

Roger Maris had held the previous mark of 61, which he set in 1961.

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