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The Dodgers avoided elimination for the second time in less than 24 hours, and now have a winner-take-all game to try to get to their third World Series in four years.

Joe Morgan was raised in Oakland, and also attended Castlemont High School, before beginning a Hall of Fame baseball career.

Carlos Correa hit a go-ahead, three-run homer after Michael Brantley's two-run shot in the fourth inning, helping the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 11-6 on Thursday to clinch their home-run heavy AL Division Series in four games.

The entire A's infield went deep in the win to keep Oakland alive.

Sean Murphy hit a two-run homer in the fourth against Codi Heuer as wives and families cheered from suites high above the diamond.

Oakland must win Game 2 on Wednesday at home to avoid another early playoff exit.

Oakland gets its shot against the Chicago White Sox in the best-of-three wild-card round having advanced just once during 11 previous playoff trips since 2000

The 37-year-old Pence wrote on his Twitter page: “Nothing can really prepare you for this part of your career when you have to say: I am retiring from baseball. Forever thankful and Gr8ful.”

The Oakland Athletics clinched their first AL West title since 2013 on Monday night with an assist from the rival Houston Astros.

The Giants earned their first win in six tries during this year's Bay Bridge Series and go into the season's final week chasing a playoff spot.

Lefty starter Jesús Luzardo (3-2) gave up five hits over six innings, striking out seven without a walk. He ended a four-start winless stretch.

Before the drone landed, umpires rushed players into the dugouts.

The air quality in Seattle was at a "very unhealthy" level of 249 at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Friday night's game between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres was postponed minutes before the scheduled first pitch after someone in the Giants organization tested positive for COVID-19.