Game Recap

If San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy is out to redeem his less-than-stellar playoff career this postseason, Friday was a convincing start. 

The Giants ace allowed just two hits through five and two-thirds innings, silencing the Washington Nationals' loud bats in their home ballpark and emerging with a 3-2 Game 1 victory to take a 1-0 series lead. 

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It is often said that in Major League Baseball, playoff spots cannot be won early on in the season, but they can certainly be lost.  

For the Pittsburgh Pirates, it looked as if that may have been the case early on.  

The 2014 Major League Baseball postseason is approaching quickly, and the best teams continue to jockey for playoff positioning, if not fight for a postseason berth.

Follow along while we update the playoff picture and provide key notes and information from around the league.

The following teams have already clinched a 2014 playoff berth: Los Angeles Angels, Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles

Teams in bold currently occupy a playoff spot

"x" indicates clinched playoff berth

"y" indicates clinched division title

The mood hit a fever pitch Saturday at the 2014 Little League World Series, as elimination games took center stage.

With everything to lose, the 0-1 teams from the prior two days left everything on the diamond in a display that was an obvious uptick in competitiveness and overall entertainment. The end results as the day progresses are more hotly contested than the lopsided affairs that peppered the opening day.

When David Price prepared to make his debut with the Detroit Tigers, it had to be nice knowing he'd face a familiar foe. The Yankees made sure that feeling dissipated quickly.

Martin Prado and Brian McCann each went yard and Jacoby Ellsbury hit a run-scoring double, as New York put up three runs in the first five innings. Then Price reminded everyone why he was the trade deadline's most coveted asset. 

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Tim Lincecum did it again. The San Francisco Giants right-hander won his fourth straight start by holding the National League West rival Arizona Diamondbacks scoreless over seven innings at AT&T Park on Friday night.

The Giants won 5-0 to take the first of a three-game set. More importantly, the win kept San Francisco tied atop the division with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost to the San Diego Padres, 6-3.

Six starts into his MLB career, Mets right hander Jacob deGrom could hardly be considered wholly responsible for his winless record. deGrom, after all, compiled a 3.44 ERA while lasting at least 5.2 innings in each outing. The Mets' moribund offense was at least partly to blame.

But on Monday night in front of a nationally televised audience, deGrom become undone. He failed to make it out of the fifth inning, surrendering 12 hits to a Cardinals offense eager to pounce. St. Louis torched deGrom for six runs en route to a 6-2 victory.

Welcome to the Oakland Athletics vs. New York Yankees live blog!

I will post updates every inning, similar to rounds in boxing, with recaps focusing on the best and worst of the particular inning, from home runs to embarrassing blunders in the field and on the basepaths. I will declare a winner of each inning and look for knockout blows delivered to the opposing team's jaw.

Kuroda and Kazmir, New York and Oakland, who will be the champ?