Jared Diamond is a sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in New York. He joined the Journal's sports department ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have had a top-10 payroll in each full season since they were purchased by the Guggenheim ownership ...

The Mets have the best record in baseball and are coming off consecutive sweeps of the Cardinals and Phillies. Their odds to win the World Series have improved ...

His Eminence, ridden by Jimmy Winkfield, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths over Sannazarro in the only Derby ever raced in April. 1961 — ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” debuts.

1969 — Houston’s Don Wilson beat the Cincinnati Reds with a 4-0 no-hitter at Crosley Field, one day after the Reds’ Jim Maloney no-hit the Astros and nine days after Wilson absorbed a 14-0 pounding by ...

Bellinger has hit .173 with two home runs, 12 RBIs and a .520 OPS through his first 21 games with the Yankees.

Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were teammates on the New York Yankees from 2004 to 2014. Together, they won a World Series in ...

The Yankees have beef with the umpires, the Reds suddenly can't stop scoring runs, Brandon Nimmo does it all for the Mets, ...

The TV ratings were at that time the lowest in World Series history ... have to pose a challenge to the Yankees to make the games credible. Ironically, the 2000 Yankees, on the tail end of ...

The 2000 Subway Series was great theater ... The TV ratings were at that time the lowest in World Series history. DraftKings has the Yankees at +900, and the Mets at +1200 to win the World Series.

Five of those homers came against Nestor Cortes, the former Yankees pitcher who gave up a walk-off blast to Freddie Freeman in Game 1 of last year's World Series. The same fans that lamented that ...

More Hy Peskin/Getty Images Oliver was part of the Dodgers teams that won the World Series in 1963, sweeping the New York Yankees ... and Cubs (1998-99). In 2000, Oliver became a roving infield ...