The Washington Nationals face a must-win situation today in San Francisco. The Giants won the first two games of their best-of-five National League Divisional playoff series with the Nats in Washington.
A day after the flurry of high-profile trade deadline deals, major league baseball gets back to a sense of normalcy with a 15-game schedule, all under the lights.
St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. will lead the committee to find a successor to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who is scheduled to retire in January.
Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals can become the National League's first seven-game winner of the season tonight. He and his St. Louis teammates are home to the Cubs this evening in an NL Central Division game. Wainwright is 6-2 with a 2.02 earned run average.