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In the case of Hernández v. the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, longtime umpire Ángel Hernández alleges Major League Baseball discriminated against him because he is of Latino descent by declining to name him a crew chief and preventing him from working World Series games. Given the plum assignment of first base in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Monday night, Hernandez proved one thing beyond a reasonable doubt: MLB is guilty of discriminating against getting calls right when it allows Ángel Hernández to umpire a playoff game. If MLB on Tuesday morning filed an exhibit...

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...

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...

MLB playoff games Live thread. Texas, Tampa game currently on TBS, Tigers, Yankees starting are 8:30 tonight. National League games are tomorrow.

Live thread for this weekend's MLB division series action

Watch Charlie Crist throw out the first pitch before today's Rangers-Rays game (ALDS game 2). His throw is worse than Obama's.

Sox prolonging the inevitable embarassment. Good for TBS, I guess.

OK, I'll start this one, too, just in case it gets interesting.Josh Becket vs. Jered Weaver.

OK. How was Gardner safe at 3rd in the 10th? Man, I thought the umps were drugged last night.

Another inning, another promising start for the Indians. Yankees pitcher Luis Vizcaino walked Kenny Lofton to start the inning. After twice failing to put down a sacrifice bunt, Franklin Gutierrez singled to left with Lofton stopping at second. Casey Blake then moved both runners up a base with a successful sacrifice bunt. The Yankees intentionally walked Grady Sizemore to load the bases with one out. With Asdrubal Cabrera at the plate, the Yankees brought their infield in, hoping to stop Lofton at third from scoring on a ground ball. Cabrera instead popped up a 2-2 pitch just in front of...

Screenshots of the celebrations at Tiger Stadium following their defeat of the "unbeatable" NY Yankees in the best-of-five Amercian League Division Series: Kenny Roger: "I hope I get away with this!" Michigan State Trooper: "Oh, no you don't!" Kenny Rogers: "I love you, man!" Michigan State Trooper: "Good thing you won..."

This is for all the marbles. Game 5. Winner goes on to treat the White Sox harshly... Mussina vs. Colon Does the Moose have one more good start in him? Will Colon be unhittable, or will the Yankees break through? Will the massive payroll win out over the scrappy role players? Will A-Rod look like a fairy when crossing home plate again? All these questions and more will be answered in a few short hours... First Pitch 8:15 EST

As a Bosox fan, so far so good.

Game 1 Teusday, 10/4 @ 3 o'clock Central, 4 o'clock Eastern 2005 Season SeriesDate-Winner-Score-Winning Pitcher/Losing Pitcher Thu, 7/21---Red Sox-----6-5---Schilling/Vizcaino Fri, 7/22---White Sox---8-4---Garland/Wakefield Sat, 7/23---Red Sox-----3-0---Miller/Hernandez Sun, 7/24---White Sox---6-4---Contreras/Arroyo Fri, 8/12---Red Sox-----9-8---Bradford/Buehrle Sat, 8/13---Red Sox-----7-4---Wakefield/Garland Sun, 8/14---(Postponed due to rain) Mon, 9/5----White Sox---5-3---McCarthy/Schilling