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HOUSTON – David Price picked the perfect time to book his first career playoff win as a starting pitcher. It sent the Boston Red Sox to the World Series. Arguably the worst postseason starter in baseball history, Price shut out a flat Houston Astros team for six innings Thursday night en route to a 4-1 victory in a pennant-clinching Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox, who won a franchise-record 108 games during the regular season, will host the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers-Milwaukee Brewers National League Championship Series in Game 1 of the World...

NEW YORK -- For Aaron Boone, it's like The Boss is back in town. The expectations for what he needs to accomplish as the next manager of the New York Yankees are straight from the late George Steinbrenner’s merciless ethos: Either win a World Series, or fail. The job is a blessing and a curse. There is so much young talent on the roster and so much more on the way, which makes the Yankees a win-now team. But if Boone doesn’t win over the next couple of years, fingers will be pointed at him and the man who hired...

Video LinkI watched the game again at MLB.TV yesterday and here is the condensed video of that great game that I watched.There is no announcer but the crack of the bats and roar of the crowd is plenty.

The Bombers KO’d Keuchel and the Astros 5-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday at the Stadium, and will take a 3-2 series lead back to Houston, with a chance to get back to the World Series for the first time since they last won it all in 2009. Masahiro Tanaka struck out eight, walked one and allowed three hits over seven scoreless innings, as the Yankees improved to a perfect 6-0 in the Bronx during the playoffs.

Down 4-0 in the seventh inning, the Yankees pulled off yet another stunner, rallying to beat the Astros 6-4 in Game 4 of the ALCS in front of 48,804 at the Stadium. Gary Sanchez delivered a go-ahead, two-run double with one out in the eighth off flamethrower Ken Giles — snapping an 0-for-13 start in the series. Aroldis Chapman recorded the save in the ninth after allowing a walk-off hit to Carlos Correa in Game 2. “Without a doubt, the (Yankee) gods were watching (over us),” Todd Frazier said. “I don’t know what else to say. The series is even...

NLCS on TBS ALCS on Fox Not really fair for those without cable!

American League No. 4 Seed New York Yankees vs. American League No. 2 Seed Houston Astros face off for the American League pennant...and a right to go to the 2017 World Series. http://m.yankees.mlb.com/news/article/258465156/yankees-astros-alcs-game-1-in-real-life/ The Astros lead the Yankees 2-0 in the top of the eighth inning.

Didi Gregorius homered twice, CC Sabathia rolled back the clock with nine strikeouts before turning it over to the bullpen in the fifth inning and the Yankees completed their historic comeback from a daunting deficit, advancing past the Indians with a 5-2 victory on Wednesday night in Game 5 of the American League Division Series presented by Doosan. New York will now face the Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series presented by Camping World. Game 1 is scheduled for Friday at Minute Maid Park. Participating in their fourth elimination game in the past eight days, the Yankees never trailed...

The addition of Pete Rose to the Fox Sports 1 broadcast team has definitely served its purpose for the still building sports network. Whether he's criticizing Josh Donaldson for not playing through a possible concussion, or bonding with Alex Rodriguez over not being liked, Rose manages to get people talking with just about every pregame or postgame appearance. Now we have to include videobombs in Rose's act. During the eighth-inning rain delay in Friday's ALCS Game 6, Rose had the internet talking and immediately creating memes after momentarily popping up in C.J. Nitkowski's live shot.

Major League Baseball announced the 14 umpiring assignments for the League Championship Series round Thursday, and many of the boys in blue selected didn't have the best of seasons calling balls and strikes. According to rankings published by Bloomberg Businessweek, the crew chief for the ALCS, Joe West, was the second-least accurate umpire behind home plate during the 2014 season. By percentage of correct calls, West was 83rd out of 84 umpires who made at least 1,000 total calls. West was right 83.91 percent of the time. The best umpire who made at least 1,000 calls was Paul Schreiber at...

As you probably know, the Royals are taking on the Orioles in the ALCS this weekend. It's the first time in 29 years that Kansas City has been in this position and players, fans and local church groups are all very excited. But there was still one major issue going into Friday's Game 1: The city had a street named Baltimore Avenue. On Thursday, that issue was corrected: Yes, you can now drink "Moose Drool" on Royals Avenue while watching Friday's game. And hopefully Mayor Sly James is there because Sly James is the best mayor name in all the...

Craig Kimbrel is supposedly the heir to Mariano Rivera. In his postseason career as closer, Rivera recorded 27 appearances of 2+ innings. Uribe bunted two balls foul, ... and then tomahawked a high fastball from David Carpenter into left-field stands for a shocking two-run homer .... Note that I wrote "David Carpenter" and not "Craig Kimbrel." The Braves had to win this game. Lose, and they go home. Somehow they lost -- in the late innings, no less -- without using the most dominant relief pitcher in the game. The sad thing is, Gonzalez apparently didn't even think of using...

The New York Yankees will fight another day. ...Thanks to a slight assist from Mother Nature. As I'm sure everyone is well aware by now, Major League Baseball decided to postpone Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. It will be played on Thursday instead: So if the Yankees are to be swept by the Tigers, they shall be swept on Thursday. It's either that, or the Yankees shall say "Not today" on Thursday. For now, we must ask the obligatory questions. Who does this postponement help more? Who...

Jim Leyland was emphatic enough. Seeing Justin Verlander on the mound again this postseason was going to be the best thing, he said, because it would come in the World Series. As for the rest of the American League Championship Series, Verlander wouldn’t even be a topic. Not in the Detroit Tigers’ manager’s mind, anyway. And it proved a moot point after the game, gutsy, but gimpy Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history in Arlington Saturday night. If the Tigers or their minions weren’t going to see Verlander the rest of the postseason, it’s probably...

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rangers' ultimate goal is to return to the World Series and this time win it. The American League West champions have just removed another obstacle by taking down the Rays in the AL Division Series on their home turf. Adrian Beltre hit a record-tying three home runs as the Rangers advanced to the AL Championship Series with a 4-2 victory over the Rays at Tropicana Field on Tuesday afternoon. Ian Kinsler also hit a home run on the second pitch of the game from Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. They...

The bad news is that Texas Rangers fans won't be seeing Cliff Lee for a few days at least. That's because of the good news that New York Yankees fans won't have to look at Lee assassinating their heroes yet again. And that's because of the worse news for Yankee fans that, when next they see their heroes, the club may be altered slightly (it usually is) but their heroes won't be brandishing the World Series rings to which their fans think they're entitled every year. They have the Rangers to thank for that. It couldn't possibly get any better...

Do you want to know how bad it's getting for the New York Yankees? A Yankee Stadium fan ran onto the field Monday night to bring Alex Rodriguez to account over . . . his reported relationship with actress Cameron Diaz. Said fan's plan was to choke the living daylights out of A-Rod the better to make himself a hero to Diaz, on whom the fan is said to have a ferocious crush. And that was before Cliff Lee finished what he started, a Game Three masterpiece that left the Yankees on the wrong end of the worst postseason shutout...

ALCS and NLCS 2010 live thread Yankees vs. Rangers--TBS Phillies vs. Giants--Fox World Series will be on Fox

I'm still trying to figure out how the Texas Rangers blew an American League Championship Series Game One they practically had in the bank. How did the Rangers strafe CC Sabathia early and chase him in the fourth inning only to end up losing a one-run game because a bullpen that was a regular-season wonder turned out to be full of bull Friday? How did Texas starter C.J. Wilson, as fresh after a weeklong layoff as Sabathia wasn't, space it for a split second covering first base and let Brett Gardner turn a top-of-the-eight-opening grounder to first into an infield...

The easy part of the American League Championship Series will be enjoying the pitching showdowns in which Cliff Lee is involved for the Texas Rangers. Yea, verily, even against the Empire Emeritus. All things considered, the Rangers' and the Yankees' pitching may be about equal, if you don't consider advantage, Lee. It's the Rangers' first trip to any postseason series off a postseason series win. It's the farthest the franchise has gone since its birth in 1961. You say you forgot, or didn't realise the Rangers were that old? Gather 'round, pop the tab on a cold one. Learn how...