Major League Baseball Playoffs Set to Begin
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The Major League Baseball playoffs are set to begin Tuesday after a regular season that provided lots of excitement. The Houston Astros had been pre-season favorites to make the National League playoffs, but
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The Boston Red Sox are the American League champions because of a history-making win against the New York Yankees. But when the World Series starts Saturday night in
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(Sports Network) - The two top teams in the National League West will begin a gigantic three-game series tonight, as the San Francisco Giants take on the Los Angeles Dodgers at SBC Park.
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Oakland, Anaheim and Texas are still battling with a week to go for what is likely to be the final spot in the AL playoffs. With Minnesota having clinched its third consecutive AL Central title, the New York Yankees heading toward a seventh straight first-place finish in the AL East and Boston comfortably ahead in the wild-card race, the West figures to attract the most interest in the final week of the regular season...
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Major League Baseball resumes action  on Thursday for the nominal second half of the six-month  campaign with Barry Bonds closing in on Hank Aaron, and some  tight division races adding spice to the season.
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Three more baseball playoff games are on tap today with the Tigers playing the Yankees, the Cardinals visiting the Padres and the Mets hosting the Dodgers. The Yankees, Cards and Mets all have 1-0 leads in the best-of-five series. The A's-Twins series has the day off with the A's leading 2 games to none.
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Tim Wakefield is finally going to get a chance to start a playoff game &#151; and it's a big one.
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The Boston Red Sox want to start the playoffs right now.
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Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez are revved up. Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are rarin' to go. Baseball fans are ready, too. The shadows are getting longer, the leaves are starting to turn and pumpkins are showing up. And that means just one thing: It's October, and it's playoff time!
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Description: The Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals face off Saturday in the first game of the World Series. It&#39;s a home game for the Sox at storied Fenway Park.
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By Jack Encarnacao, Globe Correspondent | September 24, 2004. Over the course of the three-game series with the Yankees, which starts tonight, the Red Sox could clinch a wild-card playoff berth and climb closer
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(Sports Network) - The fiercest rivalry in all of sports resumes this evening when the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox start a crucial three-game series at Yankee Stadium.
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(Sports Network) - The Colorado Rockies will try to play the role of spoiler this weekend when they take on the playoff-hopeful Houston Astros in a season- ending three-game series, starting tonight from Minute Maid Park.
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NEW YORK - A day after giving Boston ace Curt Schilling a pounding, the New York Yankees look to take a 2-0 lead over Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the National League Championship Series gets underway when the Houston Astros take on the St...
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BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox will try to become the first team to advance to a league championship series Friday when they face the Anaheim Angels in Game 3 of the AL Division Series at Fenway Park. The Red Sox lead the best-of-five series 2-0 and are attempting to sweep a postseason series for the first time since they beat Oakland for the AL pennant in 1975...
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Six losses in seven games have the Cubs on the brink of playoff elimination and the Padres were officially ousted, while the Astros, Giants, Dodgers, Angels and Athletics jockeyed for playoff position Friday.
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The playoff-bound Red Sox are home tonight to start the final six games of the regular season, and manager Terry Francona continues to straddle the line between playing for the division title (and the best record in the league) and getting his team ready for the postseason.