Adrian Gonzalez homered twice to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-4 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday that trimmed St. Louis' lead to 3-2 in the National League championship series.Zack Greinke gave a stellar pitching performance while Carl Crawford and A.J. Ellis also hit home runs for the Dodgers, who rediscovered their power stroke just in time to save their season. They held in the ninth, when St. Louis scored twice off closer Kenley Jansen before he struck out pinch-hitter Adron Ch

The Doosan Bears edged out the LG Twins 4-2 to open their second round Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) playoff series on Wednesday, capitalizing on a pair of crucial errors from the hot corner.   LG's third baseman Jeong Seong-hoon made two errors that directly led to two of Doosan's three runs in the game at Seoul's Jamsil Stadium, as the Bears opened a 1-0 series in the best-of-five affair.   In the 24 previous best-of-five playoff series, the teams that won the first game advanced to the ch

John Lackey edged Justin Verlander in the latest duel of these pitching-rich playoffs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0 Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in the American League championship series.Mike Napoli homered in the seventh inning off Verlander, and Detroit's attempt at a rally fell short in the eighth when Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder both struck out with runners on base.“The runs are pretty stingy,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “This is what it's about in postseason, is g

The St. Louis Cardinals moved within one win of a spot in the World Series by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Tuesday, taking a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.Matt Holliday and pinch-hitter Shane Robinson connected for the first home runs of the series to give the Cardinals the same 3-1 series advantage they held this time last year, only to lose the last three games to San Francisco.Game 5 is Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, with Zack Greinke to start for L

The decisive Game 5 of the opening playoff series between the Nexen Heroes and the Doosan Bears may have ended just before 11 p.m. Monday, with the Bears prevailing 8-5 in 14 innings to move on in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason.But the clock struck midnight on the Heroes, the Cinderella team of 2013, whose first postseason began with high hopes and ended on a bitter note.The Heroes claimed the first two games of the series on walk-off hits, becoming the first KBO team to win two stra

The Doosan Bears defeated the Nexen Heroes 8-5 in extra innings on the road on Monday to advance to the second round in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason, holding off a frenetic late charge by their opponents in one of the most thrilling playoff games in the league's history.At Mokdong Stadium, Choi Jun-seok and Oh Jae-won each hit a home run in the Bears' five-run 13th inning, after their team blew a 3-0 lead with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.Lee Taek-geun of the Heroes hi

Detroit won through to another appearance in the American League Championship Series by beating Oakland 3-0 on Friday, sealing a 3-2 series victory, with Justin Verlander in dominant form on the mound.The Tigers became the first team to reach the ALCS in three straight years since the New York Yankees from 1998-2001.Their opponent will be Boston, which will host Game 1 on Saturday. Despite both being historic clubs, they have never before faced each other in the playoffs.Verlander held Oakland h

The SK Wyverns of South Korea’s top professional baseball league on Thursday denied rumors that it would fire manager Lee Man-soo after the team’s lackluster season.An unnamed official from the Wyverns said that the team would retain its contract with Lee, which will expire after the 2014 season. The official added that the team’s coaching staff would undergo a reshuffle.Earlier in the day, local media reported that a “high ranking official” of the Wyverns said Lee might be dismissed as his team

In the words of their own manager, the Doosan Bears have beat themselves with sloppy play to fall behind the Nexen Heroes two games to none in their Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) first-round playoff series.The Heroes walked off on the Bears twice to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. They can eliminate the Bears with a win in Game 3 Friday at the Bears' home, Jamsil Stadium.While the finishes of the two games were surely dramatic -- the first was won on a ninth-inning sin