The Latest Breaking News from Manny Machado

Los Angeles’s manager has made operating without a closer an advantage for baseball’s best team.

What started as a party turned into a nail-biter, a game once seemingly headed for a blowout instead becoming an immediate October stress test.

Buck Showalter thinks the mission involved the short-season Aberdeen IronBirds. He sent former Orioles star and coach Brady Anderson on a stealthy operation to see teenager Manny Machado do a few laps with the under-the-radar farm club.

NEW YORK — Buck Showalter has managed in a myriad of situations throughout his 21-year major league managerial career. When the Mets skipper takes the field Friday night in the NL wild-card series, he’ll look over in the dugout and see an opposing manager that he once managed (Bob Melvin)…

The Padres offense could suddenly become what it was expected to be.

Go big or go home.

All the best-of-three wild card series will begin on Friday.

Bob Melvin didn't care where, or so he said.

SAN DIEGO —At the end, it was easy.