News about Robbie Ray

Manny Machado of the San Diego Padres was the first victim of baseball's new timing device, which made its debut on Friday amid a limited number of spring training openers and Manny Machado. Machado discovered that the pitch clock works both directions. As the 15-second clock wound under 8 seconds in the first inning, he was not fully in the batter's box and alert to the Seattle Mariners lefty Robbie Ray. Umpire Ryan Blakney called time and signaled strike one against Machado, who finished second in last season's NL MVP race.

Yordan Alvarez and his mighty bat made it to another wild run in sixth innings off Seattle ace Luis Castillo, who beat the Mariners 4-2 for a 2-0 lead in the AL Division Series. In the ninth inning, Alvarez led the Astros an 8-7 victory after a game in which they'd trailed by four runs. He was the Game 1 hero with his gut-punch, three-run shot off reigning AL Cy Young winner Robbie Ray with two outs. Castillo, who was acquired from the Reds near the trade deadline and pitching 7 1/3 innings of shutout ball against Toronto in the wild-card round, gave up an early home run to Kyle Tucker but not much else as he moved a 2-1 lead into the sixth.

In Game One against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night, the Houston Astros won with a dramatic clutch victory. When Yordan Alvarez stepped into the box, the Astros were losing 7-5 in the ninth inning with two outs and two outs. Robbie Ray of the Mariners, who had to face the All-Star designated hitter, was the subject of his match. Ray threw two pitches on the second and Alvarez won by a walk-off home run.

The bracket has been drafted and the new expanded MLB playoffs are set for their first appearance, with 12 teams competing to win the Commissioner's Trophy in what might be the best postseason in baseball history. The reformed playoffs did not only reward the top two teams in each league with first-round byes, but also the Houston Astros and New York Yankees, which all happened to be popular with fans at the end of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The World Series picture, as well as an 111-win team, the Dodgers, and three other 100-win clubs: the Astros, Braves, and the New York Mets. So even if an underdog makes it to the Divisional round, several of the best regular-season clubs in recent memory will all be around to compete for the pennant.