Major League Baseball

The Dodgers and Diamondbacks are, essentially, working without a net. That's true, to some degree, with a lot of other teams this September. But when it comes to pure death-defying, high-wire pennant races between...

Wondering who has the most favorable matchups this week? How about the most unfavorable? Each Monday, we'll take a look at every position on the field and give you a guy who looks to be in line for big-time numbers,...

Barring a repeat of the craziness that was 2007, when the Rockies authored their improbable 21-1 run, the Padres melted down and the Mets blew up, the three best races should be in the NL East (where it's the Mets or...

Like death, like taxes, like the fact that Rudy Giuliani's next speech will be largely self-congratulatory, a late season collapse by the Mets has come to be viewed as something of a certainty among New Yorkers. Even...

For the first time all night, Brett Myers found himself with his back against the wall. But by then the game was over, the second-place Phillies had beaten the first-place Mets, and Myers' stunning stretch of...