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NEW YORK — The Yankees will try to get Frankie Montas back for the playoffs. The right-hander said that he is dealing with inflammation in his right shoulder, the same issue that had him sidelined in July. Montas had a cortisone shot on Monday and will be shut down from…

LOS ANGELES — With nearly all of the drama drained from the Dodgers’ regular season, much of what remains is backwash from last winter’s lockout – a five-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks including Tuesday’s doubleheader and a six-game series against the Colorado Rockies to come, the product of baseball’s…

DETROIT — Gabe Kapler first met new Tigers president Scott Harris in the fall of 2019, when Kapler was interviewing for the Chicago Cubs' managerial opening.

LOS ANGELES — Maury Wills, who worked hard to achieve stardom with the Los Angeles Dodgers, then worked just as hard to regain dignity and standing within baseball through sobriety, has died, the team announced Tuesday.

He spent 12 of his 14 big-league seasons with Los Angeles, and was a member of three World Series championship teams.

Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ‘63 and ‘65 during his first eight seasons with the Dodgers. He also played for Pittsburgh and Montreal before returning to the Dodgers from 1969-72, when he retired.

The Tigers shortstop is using his restaurant Taquiza to help those in need.

Pete Alonso said the Mets were very subtle.

Too many strikeouts? Too reliant on home runs? No matter. This is Aaron Boone’s best team to win in the postseason.

Babe Ruth was real, insomuch that he existed categorically as a human. But everything about him, everything he accomplished, everything he’s gone on to represent, makes him mythical.

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.