LOS ANGELES — In the final days of the regular season and so often through this postseason run, Pete Alonso could wave his bat like a wand and conjure up one more game for the Mets — one more game in which he would play for the Mets. On Sunday,…
LOS ANGELES — Is the chippiness between the Mets and Dodgers that crept up Friday finished? “We’ll see,” Francisco Alvarez said Saturday during a workout at Dodger Stadium. “We’ll see what’s the next step.” Alvarez was in the middle of one incident during Game 5. Dodgers’ Andy Pages exaggerated bat…
The ball was in the air, soaring on a beautiful parabola toward the deepest part of the ballpark. Off the bat, it seemed Juan Soto wasn’t quite sure. He was taking a good, hard look. But soon he could see what everyone else saw. He could see that a Cleveland…
CLEVELAND — Three relief pitchers that barely figured into the Yankees’ plans when spring training ended helped punch their ticket to the World Series. Tim Hill, Jake Cousins and Luke Weaver combined on the final 14 outs Saturday as the Yankees defeated the Guardians, 5-2, in Game 5 of the…
LOS ANGELES — After the Mets survived Game 5, only two hitters in baseball had logged more postseason hits than Starling Marte. The contact magician capable of spraying the ball anywhere sure looks to be all the way back. Marte, an All-Star in his first year with the Mets before…
LOS ANGELES — After the Mets’ potentially devastating 10-2 defeat in Game 4 made it three debacles in four games, and left the team from Queens on the precipice of elimination, Mets players met to size up their unenviable situation. Things looked bleak — though this team that’s all heart…
Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the Yankees’ 8-6 win over the Guardians in Game 4 on Friday night in Cleveland: Hero Tommy Kahnle got the final three outs and the save — barely — in a game in which both bullpens were a mess. Follow The Post’s coverage…
Every champion has to figure out how to wiggle through games just like these two. There is no EZ Pass booth to the Canyon of Heroes, no passing lane to zip past the anxieties of October. In a couple of weeks, maybe you’ll be able to laugh about Thursday afternoon…
It wasn’t so much Jose Iglesias chasing pitches as missing a couple in the strike zone that convinced his manager to look in a different direction Friday. Carlos Mendoza inserted Jeff McNeil into the starting lineup at second base for Game 5 of the NLCS against the Dodgers, placing Iglesias…
CLEVELAND — Luke Weaver arrived back at Progressive Field on Friday in unfamiliar territory. Not only had he pitched in all seven of the Yankees’ playoff games entering Game 4 of the ALCS, he was also coming off the first blown save of his career. Weaver’s first month on the…
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