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Nationals bring back all 7 members of coaching staff for '17WASHINGTON (AP) All seven members of Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's major league coaching staff will return to the team for the 2017 season.The team made the announcement on Twitter on Thursday.Among the coaches sticking around for next...

Associated PressBooming bats of Bautista, Encarnacion could leave Jays' nestBy IAN HARRISONTORONTO (AP) In back-to-back postseasons, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion hit the two biggest home runs Blue Jays fans had seen in a generation.But after making baseball history in Toronto, both might be about to become history...

Associated PressCelebrities among those long-suffering Cubs fansBy DON BABWIN and CARYN ROUSSEAUCHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasn't happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: Win a World Series.So naturally, the chance to be part of that history...

Associated PressCelebrities among those long-suffering Chicago Cubs fansBy DON BABWIN and CARYN ROUSSEAUCHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasn't happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: win a World Series.So naturally, the chance to be part of that...

Associated PressCelebrities among those long-suffering Cubs fansBy DON BABWIN and CARYN ROUSSEAUCHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasn't happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: Win a World Series.So naturally, the chance to be part of that history...

Associated PressRIP? Not if you're a Chicago Cubs fan in a playoff yearBy DON BABWINCHICAGO (AP) If you want to know just how important the Cubs are to Chicago, a good place to start is at the end.In a city where fans have been known to scatter ashes...

AP Baseball WriterDome closed for third straight day at Rogers Centre for ALCSBy NOAH TRISTERTORONTO (AP) The sun was shining in Toronto about an hour before Game 5 of the AL Championship Series - just not inside Rogers Centre, where the retractable roof was closed for a third...

AP Baseball WriterDome closed for third straight day at Rogers Centre for ALCSBy NOAH TRISTERTORONTO (AP) The sun was shining in Toronto about an hour before Game 5 of the AL Championship Series - just not inside Rogers Centre, where the retractable roof was closed for a third...

LEADING OFF: Indians aim to win ALCS; Game 4 of Cubs-DodgersBy The Associated PressA look at what's happening all around the majors today:---ON MERITThe Indians try to earn their first World Series trip since 1997 when rookie Ryan Merritt starts Game 5 of the AL Championship Series vs. Marco...

AP Sports WriterCubs' slump gets critical in 2nd straight NLCS shutout lossBy GREG BEACHAMLOS ANGELES (AP) Anthony Rizzo's bat shattered into shards, and the ball trickled onto an empty patch of infield grass. The Chicago Cubs' cleanup hitter scampered to first base in the ninth inning, getting just...

Former Yankee Kuroda to retire after Japan SeriesTOKYO (AP) Former New York Yankees pitcher Hiroki Kuroda announced he will retire at the end of the Japan Series.Kuroda, 41, went 10-8 this season with a 3.09 ERA to help the Hiroshima Carp to its seventh Central League title in...

Blue Jays stave alive, Dodgers shut out CubsLOS ANGELES (AP) Los Angeles' Rich Hill, who was pitching in the independent Atlantic League just 14 months ago, threw six scoreless inning to steer the Dodgers to a 6-0 win against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, taking a 2-1 lead...