MLB Playoffs 2021

Game 5 of the 2021 World Series will be just the sixth MLB game to ever be played on Halloween. Here’s a history of those freaky Fall Classic contests.

 The Los Angeles Dodgers finally ran out of comebacks. They won’t have a chance to defend their World Series title after losing to the Atlanta Braves in six games in the NL Championship Series. It might have been the last game together for such key veterans as Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Corey Seager, Kenley Jansen and Chris Taylor, who...

Foul ball after foul ball, the battle between pitcher and batter intensified. On one side was Walker Buehler, the young ace that the Dodgers always want on the mound when the lights are the brightest and the stakes are the highest, trying to keep the score deadlocked at a run apiece. On the other side was Eddie Rosario, the hottest…

The Atlanta Braves know what happened last October and want to avoid a repeat. The Los Angeles Dodgers plan on an encore. Atlanta held 2-0 and 3-1 leads in the NL Championship Series before the Dodgers won three consecutive games in a playoff entirely at the neutral ballpark of Arlington, Texas, then beat Tampa Bay for their first World Series…

The Los Angeles Dodgers tapped Walker Buehler to start Game 6 of the NL Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night after bumping achy Max Scherzer. The right-handed Buehler was coming back on just three days’ rest, with the 106-win Dodgers in a must-win situation. The Braves led the best-of-seven series 3-2. “We feel really good,” Dodgers manager…

The Los Angeles Dodgers say Max Scherzer will not start Game 6 of the NL Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night. The Dodgers made the announcement on Friday night. They did not say why Scherzer will not start and did not say which pitcher will take his place. Atlanta leads the series 3-2. Scratching Scherzer was first…

Just like last postseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves will battle for a World Series berth.

On paper it was a mismatch on par with Buster Douglas fighting Mike Tyson. In one corner, was 20-game winner and Cy Young Award candidate Julio Urias. The Dodgers’ lefty allowed just one run in eight innings against the Braves in the bubble last year, and had been so good this year, the team felt confident inserting him into a…

In a postseason already marked by curious pitching strategy, Julio Urías returns to his regular role in the rotation when the Los Angeles Dodgers play Atlanta in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday. Urías led the majors with 20 wins this season while pitching 32 times, all as a starter. After starting and winning Game 2…

Huascar Ynoa was scratched with shoulder inflammation from his scheduled start for the Atlanta Braves against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series, then removed from the postseason roster. Ynoa first experienced discomfort on Monday but believed he would be able to pitch, Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “He came early, got treatment, went out…

The Los Angeles Dodgers have new life in the NLCS thanks to clutch hits from Cody Bellinger and Mookie Betts in Game 3.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are hoping history does, but also does not exactly repeat itself. During the pandemic-shortened 2020 MLB season, the Dodgers were living inside a bubble environment in Arlington, Texas. After their first two games against the Milwaukee Brewers at Dodger Stadium in the Wild Card round, the Dodgers moved to Globe Life Field for the remainder of…

Trailing 2-0 in the NL Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers have the Atlanta Braves right where they want them. At their house. The Braves’ last win at Dodger Stadium was June 9, 2018. They’ve lost nine straight in Los Angeles, getting swept in a three-game series in late August and were shut out twice in the 2018 NL Division…

From balmy Los Angeles to snowy Cleveland, World Series games have been played under brutal conditions. Here are the hottest and coldest games in MLB history.

Wilmer Flores and the San Francisco Giants are the latest victims to questionable umpiring in the playoffs. Here are the 10 worst calls in MLB postseason history.

NBC LA sports reporter Michael J. Duarte and Matthew Moreno of Dodger Blue discuss the epic Game 5 of the NLDS between the Dodgers and Giants and look ahead to the NLCS rematch with the Atlanta Braves.

The Red Sox’s 2004 comeback, Diamondbacks’ 2001 World Series win and Cubs’ curse-ending victory rank among the best playoff series in MLB history.

Only four other times have two 100-plus win teams met in a winner-take-all game.

The mound at Dodger Stadium is a sacred place. Some of the best pitchers in the history of the game have toed the rubber and delivered everything they’ve got for the love of the game. Walker Buehler is one of those pitchers. So as manager Dave Roberts slowly strolled to the mound in the fifth inning to ceremoniously take...

Heavy winds whipped the assembled flags located in centerfield. Palm trees swayed to and frow. Debris blew across the diamond like withered leaves across the backyard on an Autumn day. For nine relentless innings, the Santa Ana winds ripped through Dodger Stadium, and with it, the Dodgers offense disappeared into the night sky. Evan Longoria’s fifth inning homer was...