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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tampa Bay outfielder Randy Arozarena has been arrested in Mexico’s Yucatan state for a situation involving an apparent custody dispute, just two weeks after he won the Babe Ruth award for the Most Valuable Player in the postseason.

NEW YORK (AP) — Strike two against Robinson Canó.

A report from TMZ Sports claims that famed Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda is in “serious condition” at a Southern California hospital with heart issues.

MIAMI (AP) — Kim Ng started her Major League Baseball career as an intern, and three decades later she’s still on the rise and shattering ceilings.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals are making their pitch to President-elect Joe Biden.

MLB has decided not to punish L.A. Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner for flaunting the league’s coronavirus rules.

Alex Cora will become the next Boston Red Sox manager despite his one-year suspension over the Houston Astros cheating scandal.

Major League Baseball has thrown Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner under the bus for refusing to abide by the league’s coronavirus rules.

There was a surge of humanity onto the field in Arlington last night as the Dodgers celebrated their first World Series championship since 1988. Though, one particular person who re-entered the playing surface has drawn more attention than others.

Justin Turner was removed from the Dodgers’ World Series-clinching victory after testing positive for the coronavirus.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Blake Snell turned away from his manager and yelled an expletive as Kevin Cash headed to the mound. In control all night, the Tampa Bay ace no longer had the ball in his potent left hand.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Mookie Betts came to the Dodgers to make a World Series difference. With a mad dash to home plate, he put Los Angeles over the top.

Major League Baseball’s big game lost in the TV ratings game to a midseason football game, as ratings for Game 5 of the World Series cratered.

With Game 2 of the World Series earning such dismal ratings, baseball isn’t doing much better than the rest of woke pro sports.

Game 1 of Major League Baseball’s “Fall Classic” turned out to be a ratings classic, in that it was classically awful.

Ratings for Game 7 of the NLCS and the Georgia-Alabama college football game individually beat every one of the six NBA Finals games, Outkick the Coverage reports.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated as Cody Bellinger’s drive soared deep into the Texas night. Bellinger flung his bat off to the side and strutted up the first-base line.

Senator Ben Sasse decided to take a moment Wednesday to slam the “miserable cheater” Houston Astros during the Supreme Court hearings.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the Big Red Machine and the prototype for baseball’s artificial turf era, has died. He was 77.

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. (AP) — Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 91.

Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Friday. He was 84.

ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman singled home the winning run in the 13th inning, finally ending the longest scoreless duel in postseason history as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 in the opener of their NL wild-card series on Wednesday.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves are playing the longest scoreless game in postseason history.

Longtime Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has decided to resign from his position with the team after he recently uttered a gay slur during a live broadcast.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and the players’ association say they have committed $10 million to fund programs of the new Players Alliance to improve representation of Black Americans in baseball.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow have joined forces in the fight against human trafficking. A.G. Barr and Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter and White House adviser, hosted a roundtable in Atlanta on Monday, to

Arte Moreno, the owner of the Los Angeles Angels, told a gathering of Latino voters that it is “very necessary to vote for President Trump” in 2020. Speaking to a Latinos for Trump event in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday, Moreno

Now this was an out-of-the-box ejection.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series titles in the 1960s, has died. He was 81.

Major League Baseball opened this year by kneeling for the anthem and standing for Black Lives Matter’s agenda.

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“People are tired of watching the highly political NBA,” Trump wrote on Twitter noting that, “basketball ratings are WAY down, and they won’t be coming back.”

According to reports, several prominent black players are considering sitting out an NFL’s game in an effort to “force change.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets and Miami Marlins jointly walked off the field after a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play Thursday night.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have decided not to play their series finale at Texas to show support for calls for racial justice.

NEW YORK (AP) —Mets slugger Dominic Smith doesn’t care if white teammates join him in kneeling for the national anthem. Doesn’t need them to cut a check to his charity, either.