Manager Ozzie Guillen will bring passion and energy — and often headlines — to the Marlins, but winning will bring fans back to the ballpark on a consistent basis.

Call it aggressive, a simple matter of gaining an immediate edge. Call it a relief, something that eases a team's task by erasing the zero alongside its name on the scoreboard. Just don't call it coincidental.

Josh Hamilton has gotten plenty of attention this World Series as he plays through a groin injury that the Rangers slugger believes is a sports hernia.

Derek Holland held the Cardinals scoreless on two hits and the Rangers seized a 4-0 victory in Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night, evening the Fall Classic at two games each.

A day after Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols became the third player in Major League Baseball history to hit three homers in a World Series game, he said he spoke on the phone to the last giant who did it: Reggie Jackson.

With ace Chris Carpenter on the hill in Game 5 on Monday, the Cardinals are hoping to retake the upper hand in the World Series and head home with a lead over the Rangers.

What a changeable, diverse and unpredictable game this is. Along with being wacky and wonderful, it can also be supremely enjoyable — if you were the Texas Rangers on Sunday night.

Players in both World Series dugouts participated for the first time along with a sellout crowd as MLB and Stand Up To Cancer on Sunday staged a live in-game event to put ballpark and global focus on ending cancer in our lifetimes.

Eight of the nine batters in the Cardinals' starting lineup finished without a hit on Sunday. Among them was third baseman David Freese, whose hitless night halted his franchise-best 13-game postseason hitting streak.

Ken Griffey Jr. loved playing baseball. On Sunday, Commissioner Bud Selig made it clear that the game loved Griffey back.

Maybe I'm talking out of turn here, but I think Ken Griffey Jr. inspires a childlike love of the game in a lot of people from my generation.

Former President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Rangers president Nolan Ryan before Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday for the second year in a row.

A few hours before the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers faced off in Game 4 of the World Series, the St. Louis Rams and Dallas Cowboys got going from Cowboys Stadium. And just before kickoff, the Cardinals' Lance Berkman and the Rangers' Josh Hamilton served as honorary captains.

Frank Thomas sat in a green seat about 420 feet away from home plate in the Fort Worth Suite high above left field at Rangers Ballpark on Sunday. What Albert Pujols did a night earlier in the World Series brought back the memory.

Joe Torre stood up for the integrity of Major League Baseball's umpires on Sunday before Game 4 of the World Series between the Cardinals and Rangers at Rangers Ballpark.

With two Cardinals relievers pitching in Sunday's 4-0 loss, Tony La Russa has now made 61 calls to the bullpen in 15 playoff games this month. That is tops among all teams this postseason and is tied for second on the all-time list.

Jack Morris, who helped lead three teams — the Tigers (1984), Twins ('91) and Blue Jays ('92) — to World Series titles, has been glued to his television watching postseason action.