Major League Baseball announced the 2016 Silver Slugger award winners for both the AL and NL and the Boston Red Sox had three players tabbed for the honors.
It took 108 years, and extra innings, but the Chicago Cubs, and all of their fans, can finally call themselves World Champions. In somewhat improbable fashion, the Cubs outlasted the gritty Cleveland Indians to win Game 7, 8-7, in 10 innings.
Down goes the Billy Goat. Down Goes the Billy Goat.
The Chicago Cubs are headed back to the World Series for the first time since 1945, after beating Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in Game 6 of the NLCS Saturday.
The Cleveland Indians used some offensive fire power and dominant pitching out of the bullpen to outlast the Boston Red Sox, 5-4, in game one of the ALDS Thursday night.
News came down late Wednesday night that the Boston Red Sox have decided to call up their top prospect, and baseball's consensus top prospect, Yoan Moncada.
Major League Baseball saw another milestone reached, Sunday, as 41-year-old Ichiro Suzuki notched his 3,000th career hit with a seventh-inning triple in the Miami Marlins' 10-7 win over the Colorado Rockies.