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Former Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez took great joy in celebrating the Yankees’ ALCS demise by repurposing one of his most memorable quotes.

A 20-year-old Long Island native and minor league pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies has died after a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the team’s head of player development announced Thursday. Corey Phelan, of Greenlawn, was an undrafted free agent out of Harborfields High School who signed with the squad in 2020. He gave up just one run while pitching nine...

The goose is loose. If rain at Dodger Stadium during Game 1 of the National League Division Series wasn’t odd enough, a wild goose decided to up the ante during Game 2 on Wednesday night. As the Dodgers batted in the bottom of the eighth inning, a wild, and likely injured goose flew on to the field at Dodger Stadium…

What makes a rivalry? Is it 100 years of history? Is it proximity? Is it a mutual hatred of each other’s respective teams? The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres certainly don’t have a storied rivalry that goes back decades, but the feud between the two Southern California franchises is as intense and furious as a lion snatching...

In honor of the baseball excitement this week, NBC 7 decided to take a deep dive into our archive footage to relive the best moments from the Padres’ two postseason appearances leading up to the world series in 1984 and 1998.

The San Diego Padres knocked off the 101-win New York Mets in the National League wild-card series. Awaiting them in the NL Division Series is an even bigger challenge: the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers. “They’re hot and we’ve been hot for seven months,” a smiling — or was it smirking? — Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman said Monday. Call it a postseason...

San Diego Padres’ Joe Musgrove pitches Friars past New York Mets to win NL Wild Card Series, setting up a showdown with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Cleveland Guardians used some favorable hometown weather and a whole lot of Shane Bieber to push the Tampa Bay Rays to the brink of elimination on Friday afternoon.

After a mathematical error by MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers have now officially clinched a spot in the 2022 postseason.

The Dodgers are now the first MLB team to clinch a playoff spot following an 11-2 rout over the San Diego Padres on Sunday.

The players association sent out union authorization cards on Sunday as they look to unionize minor league baseball players.

Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star pitcher Walker Buehler has undergone Tommy John surgery for the second time in his career. 

A young MLB fan stole the show Sunday at a White Sox game.

The iconic line from the 1989 baseball classic holds true — “If you build it, he will come.” More than 3.1 million viewers watched Fox Sports’ broadcast of Major League Baseball’s second “Field of Dreams” game, about half of the audience for the 2021 game.

A Little League batter who got hit in the helmet by a pitch during a regional tournament game Tuesday rose to comfort the distraught pitcher in a remarkable act of sportsmanship.

Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth are the only two players in MLB history to hit 10 home runs and win 10 games in a single season.

Red Sox ace Chris Sale has suffered yet another injury. The team says Sale was injured in a bicycle accident on Saturday. He had just finished throwing over at Boston College, then flew off his bike as he went down a hill on his way to grab lunch. “Well, he is on the Red Sox, so a curse is possible,”…

After suffering an injury on a bike, the Red Sox starter’s season is over.

The Los Angeles Dodgers honored Vin Scully in a ceremony before Friday night’s game against the San Diego Padres. The Hall of Fame broadcaster died this week at age 94.  The ceremony began with a moment of silence in Scully’s honor. Scully called games for both the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers in a career that spanned over 67...

In a game played as Vin Scully’s death was announced by the Dodgers, Los Angeles beat the San Francisco Giants 9-5 on Tuesday night behind Mookie Betts’ home run and three RBIs. The Giants played a tribute on their video board after the final out at Oracle Park, the stadium where in October 2016 Scully broadcast the final game of…