The 2018 baseball season might well go down as the year relievers became starters. But Boston flipped the script in the Fall Classic to take home the hardware.
How exactly did L.A.'s relievers emerge from a late-season decline to become a well-oiled playoff machine? Spoiler alert: It starts with Kenley Jansen.
He's the poster child for baseball's brilliant new strategy for saving starting pitchers. The problem: It doesn't seem to actually work.
Royals lefty Brian Flynn is out eight weeks after sustaining injuries from falling through the roof of a barn.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon expects to use Aroldis Chapman for 30 to 40 pitches Wednesday despite saying he left the closer in too long in Game 6.
Taking no chances in Tuesday night's Game 6, Cubs manager Joe Maddon again went to closer Aroldis Chapman in the seventh inning, only this time with Chicago holding a five-run lead.
