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Once again, big spenders make big contenders in Major League Baseball. Outfielder Juan Soto left the New York Yankees for the crosstown Mets with a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract that gives the Mets even more power in the lineup. After falling short in the World Series, the Yankees bring in pitchers Max Fried and Devin Williams, and outfielder Cody Bellinger. The Boston Red Sox have missed the playoffs for three straight seasons, and they hope signing pitcher Walker Buehler and third baseman Alex Bregman will turn the tide. And the champion Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t rest on their laurels, signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell and outfielder Teoscar Hernández. All that star power gets lots of national TV exposure as the season’s storylines start to unfold. While Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers have a 2-0 lead on the rest of baseball thanks to sweeping the Tokyo Series vs.

Updated with positive Covid-19 test news: The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night, clinching the franchise’s seventh world championship and first since 1988. The win secured a 4-2 series victory against the Rays in the playoff finale played in Arlington, TX, the first neutral-site World Series ever thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mookie Betts, the Dodgers’ big offseason acquisition, put the game out of reach with a solo homer in the eighth inning, after the Dodgers used seven pitchers to keep the Rays at bay and were able to erase an early 1-0 deficit with a two-run sixth inning after Tampa Bay starter Blake Snell was pulled.

The victory brought to a close a baseball season unlike any other, owing to Covid-19. The virus even reared its head tonight, when Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner suddenly left the...