Seattle last made the MLB playoffs in 2001, back when Ichiro Suzuki was a rookie.
Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY
Heat is on Red Sox in AL wild-card race after fourth loss in row, to woeful Orioles: ‘It’s us versus us’
Ten years to the day, the Boston Red Sox returned to the site of one of the most calamitous and pivotal evenings in their oft-tortured history.
Opinion: MLB’s wild-card games created a fair and fabulous playoff format – one that likely ends after this year
Baseball got it just about right in adding a second wild card berth in 2012 – and one-game elimination showdowns in each league.
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While the wild-card race will be a drawn-out and bare-knuckled affair, the Blue Jays are at long last enjoying comfort, and kinship.
Report: Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer subject of protective order sought by Ohio woman in 2020
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‘We’re going to win today’: Can Phillies reverse recent collapses, break decade-long playoff drought?
With the NL’s longest postseason drought, the 2021 Phillies have a chance to break a string of recent late-season collapse.
Despite ‘Dinger’ explanation, Marlins outfielder Lewis Brinson can’t unhear slur: ‘I keep hearing the n-word’
Lewis Brinson hopes that a Rockies fan is not inappropriately castigated after hearing that fan might have shouted the mascot name rather than a slur.