While the Yankees' CC Sabathia is expecting stiff competition from Justin Verlander in Friday's Game 1 of the American League Division Series, he knows he needs to focus on beating the Tigers' hitters, not on the opposing pitcher.

Tigers right-hander Doug Fister was named the American League Pitcher of the Month for the first time on Thursday after posting a 5-0 record and a league-leading 0.53 ERA over the course of September.

His first season at the helm ended Wednesday night, so what was Dodgers manager Don Mattingly doing in a 7 a.m. Minor League meeting Thursday at Camelback Ranch, where Instructional League is underway?

The Padres announced on Thursday that they are replacing Randy Ready, who becomes the club's fifth hitting coach in five-plus years to lose his job.

Go ahead and splash some cold water on your face. Feel refreshed? Relaxed? Good, because you just experienced what many are saying was the best night of baseball in the history of ever.

Welcome to the final regular-season edition of the MLB.com Power Rankings brought to you by Sprint, where fans can rank their top 15 teams and view their picks right alongside the picks from the experts at MLB.com.

Major League Baseball on Thursday announced the umpiring crews for the four division series, with veterans Gerry Davis, Dale Scott, Jerry Layne and Joe West getting nods as crew chiefs.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson has not been shy in admitting that nothing this winter will be more significant to the franchise than re-signing star shortstop Jose Reyes — or opting not to.

Royals GM Dayton Moore views the incident in which Bubba Starling, the Royals' top pick in the June First-Year Player Draft, and two other players were cited at Tempe, Ariz., for underage drinking as a powerful "teaching moment" for them and others.

When the National League Division Series begins at Miller Park on Saturday, the host Brewers will be fulfilling a potential made clear last winter, while the visiting D-backs will be fulfilling what could only have been a warm and fuzzy dream then.

Start times have been set for the first four days of the Major League Baseball postseason, highlighted by what should be at least seven or eight consecutive hours of quadrupleheader action on Saturday.

Destiny meets determination on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET when the National League Division Series kicks off between the Philadelphia Phillies, who seemingly had a birthright to be here, and the St. Louis Cardinals, who wouldn't take "No" for an answer.

In an epic thrill ride lasting nearly five hours, the postseason fates of four teams were determined Wednesday during one of the most exciting nights in sports history.

There are those moments, to once again repeat the repeatable Vin Scully, when in a season of the improbable, the impossible happens.

The Rays' historic, unprecedented, out-of-nowhere resurgence devastated the city of Boston, enlightened the greater Tampa Bay area and made believers out of everybody across the country. Now, it has set up an American League Division Series rematch.

Though it's easy to get hyperbolic at times like this, it's certainly safe to assume we'll be talking about what transpired on Wild Card Wednesday for years and, God willing, decades to come.

Within 15 minutes of wildly exciting baseball in the wee hours of Wednesday night turned to Thursday morning, the Red Sox and Braves had their postseason Wild Card aspirations evaporate like so many hopes and dreams on a baseball diamond.