What a game. What a World Series. What a season. The 2,477th game of the 2025 season, including playoffs -- five more than any other year in history -- delivered a classic.

The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly back—just in time for its next crisis. Sportswriters have been penning baseball’s obituary for decades, claiming that America’s pastime is past its time. The game is too slow, too stodgy, too old, too boring, they said. The kids don’t care. But baseball is not dying. It’s thriving.

The Dodgers are back home for Game 3 of the World Series Monday night when they take on the Blue Jays after splitting the first two games in Toronto. Los Angeles dropped the first game of the series in a blowout before knotting the series at 1-1 with a 5-1 win behind a complete game gem from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

ESPN’s final year with Major League Baseball’s wild-card round was a historic one. The network announced Monday that the wild-card round of the playoffs last week averaged 4.6 million viewers. That’s up 64% from last year’s games and a record in ...

The average time of a nine-inning major league baseball game increased by 2 minutes this season to 2:38 in the third year of the pitch clock.

MLB did not allow players on 40-man rosters at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics but has discussed creating an extended All-Star break to allow participation in the 2028 Games. The commissioner says