Mike Petriello

For the first time in 50 years, the National League Championship Series will feature a pair of 100-win teams, with the 103-win Brewers hosting the 100-win Dodgers starting Sunday night in Milwaukee. It's going to be good. Really good. More importantly, though: It’s a rematch of last year’s NLCS, which

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Are the Dodgers really going to bench Shohei Ohtani, of all people, when the NLCS returns to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday? For, likely, a rookie in Josue De Paula who has all of 11 games of regular-season experience, at that? We don’t have the answer to that

The Brewers are up three games to zero on the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, with a trip to the World Series on the line in Thursday night’s Game 4. They won a franchise-record 103 games this year -- as well as five of the past six division

“They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we’ve got a bunch of gamers,” said Brewers manager Pat Murphy after Milwaukee’s overwhelming four-game NLCS sweep of the star-studded, two-time defending champion Dodgers. “And the gamers won this week.” We won’t try to identify gamers, a generally ambiguous term

Welcome to a most fantastically interesting World Series, in which focusing on the size of the markets involved completely misses the forest for the trees. It’s a No. 1-vs.-No. 1 matchup, just the sixth time in the past 30 years that’s happened. It’s a pair of fanbases who have never

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Chandler Simpson, Rays speedster and occasional No. 3 hitter, has never hit a homer in the Major Leagues. Just look at his MLB player card to prove it: “HR: 0,” in 985 regular season plate appearances, and none in the postseason, either, as befits one of the lightest-hitting players in