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Brewers Beat Rays to Win Their First World Series
Brewers Win Their
First World Series
Oct 28, 2026 10:28 PM CDT

Brewers Win Their First World Series

Milwaukee beats Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game 5

(Newser) - The small-ball Milwaukee Brewers playing in the smallest market in the majors are World Series champions for the first time in franchise history, the AP reports. Hey, Milwaukee: grab a brat, raise a beer and prepare for that parade. Young ace Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings of two-hit...

World Series Matchup: 2 Title-less, Low-Payroll Teams

Tampa Bay Rays beat Cleveland Guardians, head to World Series against Brewers

(Newser) - The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays will play a Suds vs. Sun World Series that will produce a first-time champion and likely baseball's first all-indoor championship, the AP reports. The best-of-seven showdown between low-payroll pennant winners opens Friday night in Milwaukee. It'll be the first World Series...

Baseball Might Shorten Its Season
Baseball Might
Shorten Its Season
Oct 8, 2026 2:29 PM CDT

Baseball Might Shorten Its Season

Owners propose shaving 8 games off schedule, giving almost everyone Mondays off

(Newser) - Major League Baseball proposed shortening the regular season to 154 games from 162 games starting in 2029, and expanding the Division Series to best-of-seven in bargaining with players on Thursday. Owners also proposed allowing higher-seeded teams in the first two rounds of the postseason to pick their opponents beginning next...

In First Season, Robot Umps Flipped Most Challenged Calls
Stats Are In on ABS Challenges
Oct 5, 2026 6:11 PM CDT

Stats Are In on ABS Challenges

Catchers had more luck than batters in system's first season

(Newser) - Robot umpires overturned 54% of challenged calls in the first season of the Automated Ball-Strike System, and catchers were far more successful than batters. Learning when to challenge is key, the AP reports. There were 10,557 challenges, an average of 4.35 per game, and 5,686 led to...

How Dominican Baseball Pipeline Exploits Kids, Feeds MLB

ProPublica probe reveals loans that take advantage of families, underage signings in DR system

(Newser) - Baseball may be the dream in the Dominican Republic, but ProPublica finds the money around it can look more like a trap. Its investigation outlines a system in which thousands of teenage prospects are funneled through independent trainers, or buscones, who house and coach their young charges in exchange for...

MLB: We Get It, No One Wants Us Playing in Grand Teton

Local opposition, environmental concerns prompt league to abandon national park plan

(Newser) - Baseball won't be invading one of Wyoming's postcard views after all, the Washington Post reports. Major League Baseball has scrapped an early-stage idea to stage a one-off game inside Grand Teton National Park after local officials and conservation groups objected.

Robot Umps Making Baseball Games a Little Longer

MLB average ticks up nearly 4 minutes, partly because of the new challenge system

(Newser) - Robot umpires aren't speeding things up: The average time of a nine-inning Major League Baseball game increased by 3 minutes, 43 seconds this season to 2 hours, 42 minutes following the introduction of the devices. MLB said Monday that 61 seconds of this year's increase was attributed to...

Identical Twin Umpires Just Fulfilled a Lifelong Dream

Austin and Tyler Jones make MLB history officiating together in Baltimore

(Newser) - Baseball history was made Wednesday in Baltimore as twins hit the field at Oriole Park, though neither was playing. Identical twins Austin and Tyler Jones became the first pair of twin umpires to work the same Major League game, handling the Blue Jays-Orioles doubleheader at Camden Yards. Austin took first...

Fan Arrested After Protest Halts Yankees-Mets Game

Man ran out on Yankee Stadium field at 9:11 on 9/11 carrying a Palestinian flag

(Newser) - A crosstown rivalry game turned into a political flashpoint on Friday when a man sprinted onto the field at Yankee Stadium with a Palestinian flag during the Yankees-Mets matchup on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Wearing a jersey that read "No Kings," the man sprinted around the outfield...

Rams, Nuggets, Avalanche Owner Is Buying MLB Team

Kroenke company hopes to close Angels deal next year

(Newser) - Kroenke Sports and Entertainment has reached a deal to purchase controlling ownership of the Los Angeles Angels from Arte Moreno, expanding its sprawling empire of teams across every major US professional sport with the addition of the beleaguered baseball club. The company led by Stan Kroenke made the surprising announcement...

Tommy John, Pitcher Behind Famed Surgery, Dies at 83
Tommy John Became
Face of Career-Saving Surgery
obituary
Aug 16, 2026 1:56 PM CDT

Tommy John Became Face of Career-Saving Surgery

Procedure has saved scores of baseball careers

(Newser) - Tommy John, the lefthanded pitcher whose contribution to baseball went well beyond his nearly 300 victories, has died. He was 83. John died Saturday at his home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, the New York Times reports, after sending a farewell message to fans last week. His wife, Cheryl, said the...

No One Had Ever Homered in His First 3 MLB At-Bats

Joshua Baez makes historic debut at Wrigley Field

(Newser) - Joshua Baez leads all of Triple-A with 34 homers this season, so hopes were high among St. Louis fans when he was called up Saturday in time for the Cardinals game in Chicago. But it's hard to imagine they were this high. The 23-year-old outfielder hit the first pitch...

Rookie Gives Away Teammate's Ball After First MLB Save

Mets rookie gives away souvenir ball in comical scene

(Newser) - After earning his first career save, New York Mets pitcher Kodai Senga wanted the ball as a keepsake. Whoops! Rookie teammate Carson Benge had already tossed it into the Atlanta crowd, the AP reports. Recently shifted to a short-relief role in his fourth major league season, Senga closed out New...

These MLB Players Should've Conferred on Wedding Dates

Nov. 14 is big day for 4 Twins teammates, who found they'd picked same date at spring training

(Newser) - A Minnesota Twins quartet is forcing their clubhouse to pick sides—at the altar. Four players are set to tie the knot on the very same Saturday, Nov. 14, creating a wedding logjam that has teammates and staff joking about how to handle their RSVPs, per USA Today . Second baseman...

Robot Reversals Show Clear Trend About Older Umps

Those in their 50s and 60s are seeing their calls overturned the most

(Newser) - Robot umps are in—and they're exposing which humans are having the hardest time keeping up. Hint: It's the older ones, reports the Wall Street Journal . Major League Baseball's new automated ball-strike system is overturning their calls more often than anyone else's, according to data crunched...

Catcher Debuts for Dodgers With a 'Heavy Heart'

Eliezer Alfonzo Jr. makes first start amid news his stepmom, sister perished in Venezuela quakes

(Newser) - Eliezer Alfonzo Jr. stepped into his first major-league start on Sunday against the San Diego Padres carrying news no player wants to hear. The Los Angeles Dodgers catcher learned that his stepmother and younger sister, missing for nine days after powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 24, had been...

Pitcher Sorry for Telling Opponent, 'Sit Down, Boy'

'It'll never happen again,' Cade Cavalli says

(Newser) - Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli apologized Wednesday for shouting "sit down, boy!" at Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras while instigating a benches' clearing scrum a night earlier, the AP reports. "I'm extremely torn up about the way that things were perceived," Cavalli said...

Red Sox Player Gets Ejected for a 2nd Game in a Row

First-baseman Willson Contreras tossed with 3 others as benches clear against the Nationals

(Newser) - Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras was tossed for a second straight game on Tuesday after throwing his helmet toward Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli during a heated exchange that ended with the benches clearing and multiple ejections. Cavalli struck out Contreras looking on a full-count pitch in the...

MLB's Pride Hat Flap Just Took a Legal Turn

DOJ probing possible religious discrimination after Giants warn over Bible verses on rainbow caps

(Newser) - Major League Baseball's handling of a Pride Night hat tiff is now drawing federal scrutiny. The Justice Department has referred MLB to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the league warned three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their rainbow-logo caps, reports the Guardian . A fourth...

Vance Slams MLB Warning Over Giants Bible Verse Caps

'Trump won we don't have to do this anymore,' he says

(Newser) - JD Vance says Major League Baseball doesn't need to play by old rules anymore. The vice president weighed in after MLB issued a warning to three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote " Gen 9:12-16 " on their rainbow-logo caps during the team's Pride Night game on...

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