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“Baseball just doesn’t have rules from another time, it has an old-fashioned code, too. When you score in baseball, the code says: ‘You better not look too happy about it. . .’ It’s the only game where there’s a ‘right way’ to play the game . . . the way it was played 100 years ago. This code doesn’t exist in other places where they play baseball, like Korea, where bat flipping is an…

“Baseball just doesn’t have rules from another time, it has an old-fashioned code, too. When you score in baseball, the code says: ‘You better not look too happy about it. . .’ It’s the only game where there’s a ‘right way’ to play the game . . . the way it was played 100 years ago. This code doesn’t exist in other places where they play baseball, like Korea, where bat flipping is an…

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Matt Harvey bringin’ heat, Kris Bryant goin’ deep. Noah Syndergaard firing 100 mph fastballs as Kyle Schwarber swings from his heels. Jacob deGrom rearing back and going right after Anthony Rizzo. In an N.L. Championship Series teeming with top young talent, it’s a classic baseball confrontation: the New York Mets and their power pitching versus the Chicago Cubs and those potent sluggers. “Strength against strength, in some respect,” Chicago executive…

The University of South Carolina’s baseball stadium is about to get a new identity. USC trustees are expected to approve a naming-rights contract with Lancaster-based Founders Federal Credit Union on Friday that will change the name of the Gamecocks’ baseball home from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park. Nicki Nash, senior vice president for marketing at Founders, confirmed the proposed deal Thursday but declined to discuss details. USC Athletic Director Ray…

It happens just about every time there is a big game of any kind in any sport, mayors of cities whose teams are playing bet things their city’s are known for on their team. Honestly, it’s getting a little played out. Fortunately, there is a new trend starting in baseball, transit authorities making bets through Twitter. It started late last month when New York’s MTA and the Los Angeles Metro…

The University of South Carolina’s baseball stadium is about to get a new identity. USC trustees are expected to approve a naming-rights contract with Lancaster-based Founders Federal Credit Union on Friday that will change the name of the Gamecocks’ baseball home from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park. Nicki Nash, senior vice president for marketing at Founders, confirmed the proposed deal Thursday but declined to discuss details. USC Athletic Director Ray…

“Baseball just doesn’t have rules from another time, it has an old-fashioned code, too. When you score in baseball, the code says: ‘You better not look too happy about it. . .’ It’s the only game where there’s a ‘right way’ to play the game . . . the way it was played 100 years ago. This code doesn’t exist in other places where they play baseball, like Korea, where bat flipping is an…

UPDATED WITH FINALS/CABLE: Sports dominated the primetime landscape on Wednesday, with a deciding game of the Mets-Dodgers series on TBS and NFL action on CBS and NFL Network drawing most of the live viewership and sending shows like including Fox’s “Bones,” “NBC’s “The Blacklist” and ABC’s “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” to season lows. According to national estimates from Nielsen, CBS and NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football”…

New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom, above right, catcher Travis d’Arnaud, left, and other Mets players celebrate a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of baseball’s National League Division Series on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP) The biggest spenders in Major League Baseball will be watching the rest of the postseason on television. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who have the highest payroll in…

Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. The two League Championship Series kick off this weekend in Major League Baseball, starting with tonight’s ALCS Game 1, which pits the Blue Jays against the Royals in Kansas City. The semifinal round of the baseball postseason follows an all-around exciting set of division series, three of which went to a winner-take-all Game 5—and the other featured the Cubs pulling…

The University of South Carolina’s baseball stadium is about to get a new identity. USC trustees are expected to approve a naming-rights contract with Lancaster-based Founders Federal Credit Union on Friday that will change the name of the Gamecocks’ baseball home from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park. Nicki Nash, senior vice president for marketing at Founders, confirmed the proposed deal Thursday but declined to discuss details. USC Athletic Director Ray…

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OK, look: If you write about baseball professionally and you make a statement like the one I am about to make, someone inevitably crawls out of the woodwork to question your baseball-writing credentials and tell you why you are wrong and stupid. And I’m here to say, before I get on with this, that I just don’t care. I am 34 years old, and by my own conservative estimate, I…

Washington’s sophomore wide receiver, Dante Pettis, was understandably nervous Wednesday morning about the big game coming up. No, not the Huskies’ showdown with Oregon on Saturday, though that will soon become his total focus. Of more immediate concern was the Houston Astros’ American League Division Series elimination game with the Kansas City Royals, which would prove to be a season-ending defeat for the Astros. As the son of Astros third-base…

I’m Jonathan, and I write about worship in the church. Except today, although I tied the title in as best I could. I’ve been trying to write a post about worship for the better part of two weeks now, but the the baseball playoffs are in full swing and my beloved Astros are a win away from the ALCS, and, well, it’s hard to concentrate on anything else. Of course,…

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Washington’s sophomore wide receiver, Dante Pettis, was understandably nervous Wednesday morning about the big game coming up. No, not the Huskies’ showdown with Oregon on Saturday, though that will soon become his total focus. Of more immediate concern was the Houston Astros’ American League Division Series elimination game with the Kansas City Royals, which would prove to be a season-ending defeat for the Astros. As the son of Astros third-base…