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With small markets and bad weather, baseball's league championship series drew far fewer television viewers than last year.

Colby Lewis starts for the Rangers in Game 3, but Texas needs answers from its offense and bullpen to avoid falling into an even larger hole in the World Series.

Page 2 presents 100 reasons to love the 2010 MLB postseason.

Long before his decisive HR, A-Rod made sure this L.A. weekend is about him.

Daily Notes for fantasy leagues setting lineups for Thursday, April 22.

World Series television ratings bounced back from last year's record lows.

A day after Alex Rodriguez's drive to right field hit a TV camera overhanging the fence at Citizens Bank Park, Major League Baseball and the Fox network placed it a little further out of range for Game 4.

The Phillies' 6-1 World Series win in Game 1 on Wednesday earned an 11.9 fast national rating and 19 share. That's up 29 percent from the opener last year, when the Phillies-Rays series drew record-low ratings.

Keith Law previews the Red Sox and Angels series, offering three things to watch when each team is at bat, three keys for each squad and ultimately a prediction on the series. Plus: notes from Baseball Prospectus, Inside Edge and ESPN Stats & Info.

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Jorge Posada hit a three-run homer, Andy Pettitte finally gave New York a quality pitching performance, and the free-swinging Yankees romped to a 9-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.

Just when it looked as if the end was near, Johnny Damon sparked the Yankees and continued their season for at least one more game.

Baseball owners unanimously approved TV contracts with Fox and TBS that run through 2013 and are worth more than $3 billion.

Favored by few, the Cardinals used an unlikely cast of characters to win their first World Series in nearly a quarter century.

Game 1 got the highest TV rating for the first game of the World Series since 1999.

Now that MLB has appeased the TV people, we need to return to the traditional way of selecting home field in the World Series.

Television ratings for the World Series are up for the first four games for the first time since 1999, and ratings for the entire postseason are the highest since 1995.