There was a stretch early this season when José Alvarado looked untouchable. Left-handed heat, cutters biting like they had a grudge, and a calm swagger that made every ninth inning feel pre-ordained.

There are decisions that surprise you in baseball. And then there are the ones that simply nod to reality. Harrison Bader’s on Tuesday fell squarely in the second category. He declined his side of a ...

It’s funny how baseball works. The Dodgers just gave us a World Series for the ages — eleven innings of beautiful chaos, the kind that makes even casual fans remember why they ever cared in the first ...

The Phillies didn’t hold a wake on Thursday at Citizens Bank Park. They held a whiteboard session. If you listened past the press-conference phrasing and squinted at the subtext, Dave Dombrowski laid ...

Somewhere out there, there are probably a few Phillies fans still pacing their kitchens, replaying every October at-bat in their heads, wondering if maybe — just maybe — this was the year the front ...

When the last pitch fell on the night of October 21, 1980, the roar echoing through Veterans Stadium wasn’t just about one game won — it was the release of 97 years of hope, heartbreak, and waiting.

Somewhere between the Fenway shadows and the winter meetings whispers, Alex Bregman is about to become the next name on every contender’s whiteboard. The veteran infielder, now 31, will reportedly opt ...

It’s funny how a few sentences can ignite an inferno. Dave Dombrowski wasn’t trying to start one. He was trying to tell the truth — that rare, risky thing in modern baseball discourse. A little more ...

I’ve spent more than two decades around this city’s ballfields — from Juniata Park and Fishtow, to Brewerytown and Hunting Park. You can tell which ones the city forgot the moment you step on the dirt ...

They’ll tell stories for years about the night the noise died. About the fourth inning when the ballpark shook, the odds board winked, and a city that can hear destiny in its bones heard it humming ...

It was Bryce Harper’s birthday — Oct. 16 — the day Dave Dombrowski stepped to a podium at Citizens Bank Park and, without meaning to, lit the match. A day meant for cake and candles turned into a ...

Nearly 40 days ago, Trey Yesavage was pitching in obscurity. Friday night, he’ll take the mound in Game 1 of the World Series. Let that sink in. From Low-A Dunedin in April to the biggest spotlight in ...