Owen Miller broke a scoreless tie with a two-run single and Colin Rea tossed five shutout innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Milwaukee has won four in a row and swept a three-game series in St. Louis for the first time since Sept. 24-26, 2018. Rea gave up five hits over five-plus innings and left after walking Paul Goldschmidt to begin the sixth.
Marcus Semien was told before he saw his first World Series ring how nice it was going to be. “They weren't lying at all,” said the Texas Rangers' All-Star second baseman. Two days after unfurling the franchise's first championship banner on opening day, the Rangers finished the celebrating by getting their rings in another pregame ceremony Saturday night before the second of a three-game opening series against the Chicago Cubs.
Juan Soto had three hits capped by an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning that lifted the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win Sunday that completed an opening four-game sweep of the Houston Astros. With the score 3-3, Gleyber Torres singled off closer Josh Hader (0-1) with two outs in the ninth inning and stole second base. “It just put a bow on the series of what we saw in his at-bats,” manager Aaron Boone said.
A full postseason share for the World Series champion Texas Rangers totaled $506,263, just down from the record set when the Houston Astros won in 2022, but the total pool increased to the most in Major League Baseball history. The pool of $107.8 million topped last year's $107.5 million in the first season of expanded playoffs but the share was down from Houston's $516,347. Texas split $38.8 million into 64 full shares, 12.56 partial shares and $48,000 in cash awards, the commissioner's office said Tuesday.