“You think I’m not as good as I am? I’m going to try to prove you wrong." How A's slugger Nick Kurtz, just a year out of college, handled the pressure of a rapid ascent, learned to be "OK with failure" and became the unanimous AL Rookie of the Year. www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The NL West will now feature one manager going straight from coaching in college to the pros and another who was a reliever for his team just three years ago. Will be fascinating!

Yoshinobu Yamamoto has a 1.15 ERA over his last nine starts and a 1.54 ERA over his last five playoff starts. He has risen to the occasion again and again, as the Dodgers envisioned. Tonight, their season relies on it. “Right guy at the right time.” www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

After a wild-card failure with the Mets’ season on the line, Chris Bassitt hoped it could be a learning lesson. He prayed for another chance like this. On the three-year wait, another chance with “best friend” Max Scherzer and October redemption: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The Dodgers shuffled their lineup. It didn't matter. They K'd 12 times against Trey Yesavage, October's breakout rookie, and have now scored four runs in their last 29 innings. "It’s time for us, for the offense, to show up." One day left to figure it out: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Six hours, 39 minutes of baseball madness. Shohei Ohtani reached nine times. Will Klein enjoyed a night he could not even dream up. Yoshinobu Yamamoto readied to enter two days after a complete game. And to finish off an 18-inning World Series epic, guess who: 🔗: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The Dodgers are in the Fall Classic for the fifth time in nine seasons, won it in '20 and '24 and have made the playoffs 13 straight years. Some already consider this a dynasty. Others? "We go back-to-back...we can potentially talk about a dynasty." www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Shohei Ohtani answered questions about the toll that pitching had on his hitting. Then he responded with “the single best performance in the history of baseball” to send the Dodgers to the World Series. “Must be fun to be him, huh?" On a display for the ages: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

On the note from Pat Murphy, the “little spark” a lifeless offense is searching for and the tall task ahead for the Brewers, as the powerhouse Dodgers enter tonight with a chance to return to the World Series: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Back in February, Betts set out "to prove everybody wrong." Eight months later, he's a Gold Glove shortstop finalist. "I think the only person on this planet that believed that Mookie Betts would in this conversation," Dave Roberts just said, "was Mookie Betts." www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Well, here’s a first. Shohei Ohtani is taking BP on the field at Dodger Stadium.

He creates nicknames and “Irish chaos,” a master motivator who, in his own style, gets the most out of undervalued talents. “They take on Murph’s personality.” On the quirks, idiosyncrasies and evolution of Pat Murphy, as told by his players through the years: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Thirty minutes after the chaos, the shell-shocked looks and the empty gazes remained. This year was supposed to be different. "Deep down in my heart, I felt that this was the team." But the Phillies’ season went up in flames. Now, a winter of change looms: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

read @rowankavner.bsky.social on schwarber www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The Dodgers advanced to the NLDS — and, vitally, might have found the late-inning answer they need. Enter Roki Sasaki. “It feels like he wants it.” “Wow. That’s really all you can say, is ‘wow.’” “That guy is gross.” www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

On the end of an era in Houston… www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The fastest Dodger to 100 home runs with the franchise also might be a playoff weapon on the mound. On Shohei Ohtani, who at the end of a milestone week as a hitter will try to build off a landmark outing as a pitcher, and what his progress means for October: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

I know he dealt with some pitch tipping stuff, but what a fascinating year for Jesús Luzardo: -10 starts of 6+ IP, 1 or 0 runs allowed -6 starts of 5 or fewer IP, 4+ runs allowed Still has an ERA over 4.00 on the year, but he has 7th-most Ks in MLB and a 2.32 ERA over last 5 starts.

Bad habits led to Mookie Betts' worst year at the plate and an "X" next to all of his 2025 goals. Except for one. "Win" Now on an 8-game hit streak entering a critical weekend, will a new mindset help salvage his season? On his search for answers: foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

We should probably be talking more, collectively, about Nathan Eovaldi's unreal season. Dude has a 1.38 ERA in 111 IP. We've got a while to go, but the last player to finish a season with at least that many innings and that low of an ERA was Bob Gibson in 1968.

The Milwaukee Brewers have won 35 of their last 48 games. They enter Wednesday tied for the best record in MLB, despite a bottom-10 payroll. How "a bunch of Average Joes" are, yet again, exceeding all expectations: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The Miz goes tonight looking to make it a W12 for the Brewers. Before the All-Star Game, I chatted with the rookie standout about his Pokémon and sports card collections, late nights on eBay bidding for his card, a 'holy s---' moment vs. Nolan Arenado and more. www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

The dugout at Dodger Stadium is approximately one Misiorowski tall

As Clayton Kershaw was leaving the press conference room, Pedro Martinez stopped him to congratulate him and say a few words: “I’m going to be waiting for you in Cooperstown.”

There were 16 All-Star replacements named last week, which meant a bevy of travel alterations. From a postponed trip to the Hamptons, to cancellations in Cape Cod and Miami, to no longer ordering in Chinese food in Milwaukee, how their plans changed: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Bregman hopes to return by the end of the week. He will not play in the All-Star Game.

Among those not voted onto an All-Star team: -NL hits leader -NL RBI leader -NL saves leader -NL 1B leader in OPS -NL OF leader in OBP -AL 3B leader in HR/RBI -AL OF No. 2 in OPS Every team's biggest snub, ranked from 30 down to the most glaring omission: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

There are, at this very moment, four players (min. 250 PA) with a 1.000+ OPS: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani and two catchers. It is absurd what Cal Raleigh and Will Smith are doing this year.

The crowd keeps chanting "Jeter" for some reason, but I'm pretty sure that's Altuve.

Max Muncy said he’s looking at roughly six weeks out with the knee injury, which, while disappointing, is about best case scenario considering how it looked at the time. No structural damage.

The first was against Skip Schumaker, who was born in 1980. The latest was against Vinny Capra, born in 1996. On Clayton Kershaw, 3,000 strikeouts, one last box checked off the Hall of Fame resumé and a club few, if any, will join again: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Kershaw 3,000

Dave Roberts on Clayton Kershaw, three strikeouts away from 3,000 entering tonight's start: “There’s still more work to be done in the season, but as far as his career, I think that this is the last box. This is it. He's won two championships, and he wants this."

Cal Raleigh has more homers before the break than any catcher or switch-hitter in MLB history. He's on pace for the best season ever from a catcher. So, how did he get here? "He’s worked his ass off." On the big jump of Big Dumper: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Enjoying the very normal baseball

Robert Suarez has received a three-game suspension and a fine for throwing at Shohei Ohtani. He will appeal.        Dave Roberts and Mike Shildt have received one-game suspensions and fines. They will serve their suspensions tonight.

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Will Smith ranks first in batting average and second in OPS among all qualified NL players. Two catchers, Cal Raleigh (.995) and Smith (.966), trail only Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani for the highest OPS in MLB.

As an ode to his manager, Kopech also got Tripped

What an unbelievable first half for Andy Pages, who is now second in fWAR on a Dodgers team with Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Teoscar Hernández, Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

An opener? What happened to the game I love?

Our trade grades page is up and running...about a month earlier than expected. More here on the stunning Rafael Devers move, a relationship in Boston that never had to be this contentious and how that tension became the Giants' gain: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Even with the Devers/Boston drama all year, stunning that it ended like this. In the middle of June. Right after sweeping the Yankees (and can you imagine if Bregman opts out)… What a huge get for a Giants team that needed an offensive upgrade. Blockbuster Posey, y’all.

What ump cam was meant for

He needed to put a little morejon it

It is…pouring right now at Dodger Stadium

Last year, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's two masterful starts against the Yankees showcased what was possible. Now, as he gets set to see them again, the star the Dodgers envisioned — and need — has arrived. Inside the crucial Year 2 rise of their unorthodox ace: www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...

Tarik Skubal has 89 strikeouts and three walks over his last 10 starts. 89 STRIKEOUTS AND THREE WALKS

Joe Davis grew up dreaming of calling the World Series. Now, his voice will forever be linked to one of its biggest moments. Seven months after "Gibby, meet Freddie," it still doesn't feel real to Davis. "I’m, more and more, appreciating what that moment was." www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/...