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The American League Championship Series is about the storied Red Sox trying to subdue the storybook Rays, who took a long time to crawl from their first major league game to Friday night’s opener.

Brad Lidge’s high-octane fastballs and wickedly deceptive slider have closed games for the Phillies, who host the Dodgers in Game 1 of the N.L.C.S.

This much is certain in the N.L.C.S.: the Dodgers and the Phillies are evenly matched in 60-something managers who have been some places and learned some things.

Mr. Kissell became one of baseball’s most renowned teachers in a long career with the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization as a manager, player, coach and instructor.

The deepest part of Citizens Bank Park is a short chain-link fence atop the center field wall, 19 feet above the 409-foot sign. That is exactly where Manny Ramirez crushed a Cole Hamels fastball in the top of the first inning of Game 1 on Thursday. Off the bat, Hamels said, he did not think the [...]

The Tampa Bay Rays are preparing to host the first two games of the American League Championship Series, less than 20 miles away from the Yankees’ minor league training complex.

Pat Burrell, Chase Utley and the Phillies had more than enough power to offset the Dodgers’ Manny Ramírez.

Charlie Manuel played 19 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the last 19 of a brief career in which he hit .198. But in that short time, he learned a lot from the Hall of Fame Manager Walter Alston. There’s no sense in paraphrasing Manuel, who is truly one of a kind. So here’s the [...]

Gil Velazquez’s stint as an improbable postseason player with the Boston Red Sox lasted one game. When an injured hip forced the Red Sox to remove third baseman Mike Lowell from the division series roster, Velazquez, an infielder, was added. But he will not be on Boston’s roster for the American League Championship Series. After spending [...]

We’ve given you a good dose of Phillies history lately, so here’s something for all you Dodgers fans. Or should I say D-O-D-G-E-R-S fans. It’s the classic Danny Kaye ode to the early ’60s Dodgers… as played out by Lego men. (Funny, but I don’t think Kaye ever sang about the team he later owned, [...]

We’re three hours away from first pitch of Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park, where former Phillies N.L.C.S. heroes Gary Matthews and Garry Maddox will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. When the cheering dies down, these are the lineups the teams will use: Dodgers 1) Rafael Furcal, ss 2) Andre Ethier, rf 3) Manny Ramirez, lf 4) Russell Martin, c 5) James Loney, lb 6) Matt Kemp, [...]

With longtime manager Joe Torre at the helm of the Dodgers, and the Red Sox and Rays representing the AL East, the Yankees are keeping a keen eye on this year's playoffs, despite not making an appearance for the first time since 1993.

Now that he's skipped Cal and aced the instructional league, the next turbo charge for Kyle Higashioka could be heading to full-season ball.

Nobody knew it in 1983, except for Phillies fans, but it was pretty much the end of the only sustained era of sporting excellence Philadelphia has known.

Tropicana Field is an antique that does not draw adequate attendance or generate substantial revenues, and the Tampa Bay Rays want a new stadium.