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Baseball in 2016: from Cubs win! to Scully's sayonara, 10 memorable momentsAnother year of baseball is gone, goodbye: David Lengel takes a look back at the best, worst and most controversial moments of the 2016 season
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Why protesting during the anthem is the ultimate sin in Major League BaseballDavid Lengel: In a sport where patriotisim makes up the fabric of the game, Jones’ concerns are valid. Plus, three cheers for Yasiel Puig, will Big Papi face a full moon in Yankee Stadium, and Joe Maddon rides the Cowboy
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Former Cardinals scouting director jailed for hacking Astros' player databaseA federal judge has sentenced the former scouting director of the St Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison
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Why the Mets' Matt Harvey has earned the right to be mediocreDavid Lengel: Harvey hasn’t even been that, but if he can recover to a middling level, that will be enough fo New York in 2016. Plus happy birthday Big Sexy, Donald Trump is green all over, another Marlins mess, and more
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Max Scherzer ties MLB strikeout record as Nationals' momentum buildsBetween a major league record and a new $175m seven-year deal, there’s been plenty of drama at the Nats this week
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Our MLB predictions for 2016: can anyone stop the rampant Royals?The Red Sox have made changes, Mike Trout is still Mike Trout, and the Cubs are still looking to end their title drought. Our baseball writers predict the season
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Ex-St Louis Cardinals scout pleads guilty to hacking Astros' databaseChristopher Correa, 35, pleaded guilty to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer and faces up to five years in prison on each charge
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Baseball's top 10 of 2015, from KC's royal masterpiece to the mesmerizing MetsWith another year of baseball is in the books, David Lengel takes a look back at the best, worst and most controversial moments of the 2015 season
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Jake Arrieta wins NL Cy Young award while Dallas Keuchel takes AL honorsArrieta topped the majors with 22 victories, boosted by a record 0.75 ERA after the All-Star break, and beat out Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw to win award
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Should the Mets trade Harvey and other MLB offseason questionsDavid Lengel: The Royals have been champs for over a week, and that means the hot-stove season has arrived: the Guardian services the speculators in asking a handful of baseball’s biggest questions
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Toronto in seventh heaven after baseball gods bring Blue Jays back from the brinkDavid Lengel: After emerging from one of the wildest innings in baseball history, the Toronto Blue Jays are heading to Kansas City, while the Rangers ponder another blown lead
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Never-say-die Royals complete comeback to beat Astros and reach ALCSJohnny Cueto pitched eight dominant innings Wednesday night and leading the Kansas City Royals to a 7-2 victory over the Houston Astros
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Astros blow big lead to let Royals back into ALDSAstros shortstop Carlos Correa couldn’t handle a deflected grounder that might have been a double-play ball, helping the Royals rally for five runs
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Royals on the ropes after Dallas Keuchel leads Astros to victoryDallas Keuchel remained perfect at home with seven gutsy innings and Chris Carter homered, leading the Houston Astros to a 4-2 win
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The Joy of Six … baseball collapsesThe Astros stormed through the first five months of this season, and then started tanking. But they’re not alone. We pick half a dozen of the worst baseball collapses
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A handy guide to this season's mindbending MLB playoff permutationsWhat? It’s over already? Well, almost: baseball’s marathon regular season is down to just six days, at least in theory. We look in on what’s left to settle
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Fickle fortunes in Los Angeles as Dodgers and Angels fight twin slumpsLos Angeles’s two major-league clubs, once sure things to make the post-season, will need to reverse late-summer swoons in order to play into October
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The Joy of Six: the best Major League Baseball rental pickupsDavid Lengel: David Price, Justin Upton, James Shields and Yoenis Cespedes are high-profile hired guns still on the market, capable of propelling teams from the playoff bubble to post-season bubbly. The Guardian looks back at six in-season rentals who paid off handsomely
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Will the Chicago Cubs wreck their franchise and win the World Series?David Lengel: The Cubs are inching closer to the impossible, but do they really want to win it all for the first time since 1908? We preview the second half of the MLB season
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New York Mets fans win the World Series … of bad grammarAs if losing seven of their previous eight games wasn’t enough, Mets fans now find themselves in the basement of MLG – that’s Major League Grammar
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Why the Oakland Athletics may rather be lucky than goodDavid Lengel: Billy Beane’s last place Oakland A’s are the unluckiest team in baseball, but reaching the playoffs is not out of the question
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The MLB trade deadline could be a bust – but expect a scramble for Cole HamelsThe only sure thing is that Philadelphia remain in the driving seat as long as they have Cole Hamels. Elsewhere, expect even more low-level trades than last year
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Fans of scandal-stained St Louis Cardinals buckle up for a bumpy rideDavid Lengel: This week, the wholesome Midwestern St Louis Cardinals became the baddies, prompting deep soul searching amongst their loyal fan base
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The punchline Houston Astros are no more. Oh, how they will be missedThe Astros are on a roll but no so long ago they were must-watch TV, even if you watched through your fingers
St Louis Cardinals docked two draft picks and fined $2m for hacking Astros