MLB

No team that led a World Series 3-0 has ever lost it, and none lost more than a single game. Through Game 3, Milwaukee holds that lead over Tampa Bay.

Tropicana Field's roof is fixed; Milwaukee's is a decision, up to four of them, and in October the league makes it. The forecast for Game 1 is 55 degrees and dry, which leans closed but settles nothing.

Free agents get roughly four weeks before a likely Dec. 2 lockout freezes the market. And a repeat of 2022's 99 days would leave 15 days before the earliest traditional Opening Day MLB has ever scheduled.

MLB's automatic extra-innings runner disappears the moment the regular season ends. The league's reasoning splits fans down the middle.

Every October the same theory returns: the first-round bye cools off baseball's best teams. Four years of results say the bye helps, just less than its reputation suggests.

The 2026 World Series opens Oct. 23 and could run to Halloween night. Five decades of playoff expansion explain why the Fall Classic keeps landing later on the calendar.

Major League Baseball has no salary cap, just a $244 million threshold, escalating tax rates, and a Dodgers front office that's turned paying it into strategy.

Three days before MLB's Aug. 3 deadline, Mike Trout and Willson Contreras each shut down trade talk in the same week, one leaning on 10-and-5 rights, the other on a negotiated no-trade clause.