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James H. Williams / Orange County Register:
World Series Game 5 live updates: Dodgers score two runs against Rays in first inning — Follow along for updates from our MLB reporters covering the game. — The Dodgers will start Clayton Kershaw today in World Series Game 5. Tyler Glasnow (Santa Clarita Hart HS alum) is expected to start for the Rays.
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MLB Insiders / ESPN:
World Series Daily: Can Rays seize series lead over Dodgers in Game 5? — After all the oddities of the MLB regular season and postseason, the 2020 World Series pits baseball's top two teams against each other. While we've grown accustomed to seeing the Dodgers playing for the championship …
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Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, MLB Baseball News … and True Blue LA
Jillian Olsen / WALV-TV:
Rays tie the series 2-2 with exciting walk-off Game 4 win — Brett Phillips came through in the clutch for the Rays in their 9th inning comeback. — ARLINGTON, Texas — It was an ending no one could have predicted! After an already nail-biting game the Rays have won Game 4 in walk-off fashion.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
World Series 2020: Tampa Bay Rays revel, Los Angeles Dodgers despair as Game 4 delivers baseball bliss — ARLINGTON, Texas — It happened just past midnight on the East Coast, 34 years to the day the last time a World Series game concluded like this. There are so many possible outcomes for the final play of a baseball game.
Justin Barrasso / Sports Illustrated:
ESPN's Jessica Mendoza Makes History at the World Series — In a Q&A, the ESPN MLB analyst discusses the Fall Classic and why Cooperstown came calling. — Jessica Mendoza is calling the World Series for ESPN Radio, making history as the first woman to serve as an analyst on a national platform during the Fall Classic.
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South Side Sox and Lookout Landing
Jerry McDonald / Mercury News:
Raiders offensive linemen Miller, Good, Hudson, Jackson cleared to face Bucs after COVID list stint — Kolton Miller, Denzelle Good, Rodney Hudson and Gabe Jackson all received final clearance to play for the Raiders Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Chico Enterprise-Record, East Bay Times, Marin Independent Journal and The Reporter
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Jerry McDonald / Mercury News:
Game on! Raiders-Bucs still good to go Sunday despite coronavirus — Aside from Trent Brown, the rest of the Raiders' offensive line tested negative for coronavirus and will face Tom Brady and theTampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday in Las Vegas — Offensive linemen Kolton Miller, Denzelle Good …
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CBS Los Angeles, Daily Herald, ProFootballTalk, Chico Enterprise-Record and Marin Independent Journal
Bill Madden / New York Daily News:
Exclusive: Ex-Astros exec Mike Elias eyed for potential MLB pension fraud in his new role as Orioles GM — It was rather interesting last week to see disgraced former Astros GM Jeff Luhnow emerge from MLB exile to once again proclaim his innocence in the Houston sign-stealing cheating scandal and this time …
Cam Inman / Mercury News:
49ers 33, Patriots 6: Warner leads dominant defensive effort, Wilson scores thrice before injury — Fred Warner flipped his body sideways as he shuffled and spied Cam Newton. Then, in a flash, Warner coyly retreated into coverage and, voila, the 49ers' star linebacker came up with a shoestring interception.
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Chico Enterprise-Record, The Reporter, Marin Independent Journal and East Bay Times
Tim Healey / Newsday:
Francisco Lindor to Mets? Steve Cohen could make it happen — How about this for a championship-team-building strategy: Identify a superstar who is approaching free agency and whose team seems uninterested in guaranteeing him the money he inevitably will get. Trade for him.
The Athletic:
Sources: The Cubs are making another change with their hitting coaches — Trying to fix the long-running issues with their offense, the Cubs will once again reshuffle their staff, choosing not to retain assistant hitting coach Terrmel Sledge, whose contract is set to expire Oct. 31, sources said.
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Bleacher Nation, Cubs Insider, MLB Trade Rumors and Bleed Cubbie Blue
Erik Boland / Newsday:
Yankees' Gio Urshela and Clint Frazier named 2020 AL Gold Glove finalists — Gio Urshela a Gold Glove finalist? — That was not a surprise Thursday afternoon when the finalists at each position were announced; certainly not a surprise to anyone who has watched Urshela man third base for the Yankees the last two seasons.
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Pinstripe Alley
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Gordon Wittenmyer / NBCSports.com:
Cubs' Will Venable in mix for Red Sox, Tigers manager jobs — If any changes are coming to the Cubs' coaching staff this winter, it might start with third-base coach Will Venable. — Venable, who has been on the Cubs' coaching staff for three seasons, has interviewed with the Boston Red Sox …
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Cubs Insider, Bleacher Nation, MLB.com, MLive.com, MLB Trade Rumors and The Athletic
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Alex Speier Globe / The Boston Globe:
Red Sox interview Cubs' Will Venable, Pirates' Don Kelly for manager job
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MLB Baseball News …, Over the Monster, Forbes, CBS Boston and MLB Trade Rumors
