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Articles by Dave Sheinen
Eddy Alvarez, speedskater and baseball player, becomes the sixth Olympian ever to earn medals in both the Summer and Winter Games
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Eddy Alvarez was standing in the infield dirt near second base at Yokohama Stadium, the Olympic rings spray-painted in white in the outfield grass to his right, the final out of Team USA’s semifinal win suddenly in the books. He lowered his head, jogged in to shake his teammates’ hands, made his way to the dugout, took a seat — and absolutely lost it. Something bigger than a baseball game was won out there Thursday night.
A path forward?
The latest concept for the potential structure of the pandemic-delayed Major League Baseball season — a regular season of around 50 to 60 games with prorated salaries for players, an idea floated by MLB on Monday — by itself had little chance of ending the stalemate between MLB and its players’ union over the economics of a shortened season.
Red Sox storm ahead in ALCS, and Astros are suddenly facing unexpected trouble
HOUSTON — The Houston Astros had put themselves through something close to organizational hell to get to the point where they could hand the ball to Roberto Osuna in the late innings of a one-run game in October. They saw their clubhouse cleaved, at least initially, by the controversial trade that brought him to Houston in July. They were blasted by the national media. They endured merciless treatment from fans on the road.
Cora returns to ALCS, this time as manager of the Red Sox
O ctober 15, 2017 was a Sunday, and an off-day between Games 2 and 3 of the American League Championship Series, but as the rest of the Houston Astros’ players and coaches bused from the airport to Yankee Stadium for a late-afternoon workout, bench coach Alex Cora, with his bosses’ permission, headed into Manhattan and walked into a suite at the Palace Hotel at 51st and Madison, where Boston Red Sox President Dave Dombrowski and a team of his lieutenants awaited him.By the time they parted...
Playoff baseball: Boston survives, advances to ALCS
NEW YORK — As one Boston Red Sox pitcher after another mowed down the New York Yankees on Tuesday night, the realization slowly settled across an increasingly silent Yankee Stadium: none of it mattered.
In ALCS, Yankees against Astros is a collision of extreme power against extreme power
HOUSTON — If the game of baseball has entered some new evolutionary realm this season, populated by flame-throwing pitchers and all-or-nothing sluggers who together pushed home run and strikeout totals to record highs, the Houston Astros and New York Yankees represent its pinnacle — the most highly evolved species of this new era of baseball.
Raising gold: Katie Ledecky’s journey to becoming an Olympic gold medalist and a favorite to win in Rio
Additional video Randolph Smith and Zoeann MurphyAdditional footage USA Swimming, Use of Olympic footage authorized by the IOC and by the USOC (36 U.S.C. § 220506), MyMCMedia.orgPhotos The Ledecky family, AP, USA Today, Getty Images, Reuters, EPA, Freed PhotographyMusic Jon Luc Hefferman/Needle Drop Co.
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