A confluence of factors this MLB season, most notably vaccine hesitancy and the delta variant cost several teams and many players more than others.
Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY
MLB’s frenzied finish: Yankees, Red Sox punch AL wild card tickets, as Giants stave off Dodgers
A compelling final day of Major League Baseball’s regular season saw the Yankees and Red Sox clinch AL wild-card spots and Giants win NL West.
‘Tomorrow counts’: Red Sox, Yankees stagger into final day of season needing wins to clinch AL wild-card spots
Boston and New York face the same prospect on the last day of the regular season: win and face each other Tuesday in the AL wild-card game.
Who’s the National League MVP? Brandon Crawford may be most deserving despite Harper, Soto, Tatis’ numbers
We won’t say there’s one truly correct answer – though there is one player who can satisfy almost everyone’s criteria.
‘It’s not looking great for October’: Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers not optimistic after injury setback
Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers were not optimistic about his potential to pitch in the playoffs after he suffered an injury setback Friday night.
MLB attendance takes COVID-related hit but baseball has eye on the future: ‘Working to become that habit’
Major League Baseball welcomed fans back to the park after completely empty stadiums in 2020. Did the fans return in full force?
Baseball’s biggest surprise? Crashing AL wild-card race, Seattle Mariners can snap MLB’s longest drought
Seattle last made the MLB playoffs in 2001, back when Ichiro Suzuki was a rookie.
Heat is on Red Sox in AL wild-card race after fourth loss in row, to woeful Orioles: ‘It’s us versus us’
Ten years to the day, the Boston Red Sox returned to the site of one of the most calamitous and pivotal evenings in their oft-tortured history.
The Dodgers and Giants are having an epic pennant race – but one will be relegated to historic runner-up
Should the clubs maintain their breakneck pace, it will leave one club as the most decorated wild-card team ever.
Opinion: MLB’s wild-card games created a fair and fabulous playoff format – one that likely ends after this year
Baseball got it just about right in adding a second wild card berth in 2012 – and one-game elimination showdowns in each league.