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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Flaherty will start Game 1 of this weekend’s National League Division Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, with rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto set for Game 2.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fernando Valenzuela is stepping away from his broadcast duties with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the rest of the season so the former major league pitcher can focus on his health. Valenzuela, who turns 64 on Nov.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays moved quickly by making some coaching changes after a last-place finish in the American League East. Now the heavy lifting begins. General manager Ross Atkins has his work cut out for him entering the off-season.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Cherington believes the Pittsburgh Pirates are getting better, they're just not doing it fast enough. The general manager hopes a coaching shakeup can help speed up the process.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins are remaking their on-field staff in the aftermath of a late-season collapse that kept them out of the playoffs, announcing Thursday that hitting coaches Rudy Hernandez and David Popkins, assistant hitting coach

Pete Rose still isn't going into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

NEW YORK (AP) — Luke Weaver walked onto the Wrigley Field mound last month for his big league closing debut and was far from stoic. “I couldn’t see straight. I was blacked out for the most part.

MIAMI (AP) — The claim to Shohei Ohtani's potentially lucrative 50th home run ball grew more complicated this week, with a second fan filing a lawsuit asserting he had possession of the historic baseball.

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays are moving Don Mattingly back to the position of full-time bench coach after the six-time All-Star also spent the 2024 season as the team’s offensive coordinator.

NEW YORK (AP) — Teams increased their success rate on video reviews to 53.7% this season, led by the Boston Red Sox at 67.9%. The percentage of successful team-initiated reviews was up from 48.5% last year and 50.2% in 2022.