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 Major League Baseball announced starting times and the schedule
for the Fall Classic on Thursday. Each game is set to begin at 8:07
p.m. ET
Game 2 will be played Wednesday in Kansas City, followed by Games 3,
4 and 5, if necessary, Friday through Sunday in the National League
Championship Series winner's home stadium. The Giants entered
Thursday night's Game 5 in the NLCS with a 3-1 lead.
If the World Series is extended to a Game 6 or 7, it would shift
back to Kansas City on Oct. 28, and Oct. 29.
The Royals, who are in the World Series for the first time since
1985, open at home by virtue of the American League's victory in
this season's All-Star game.
-- Jeff Banister will be named manager of the Texas Rangers, a
source confirmed to The Sports Xchange on Thursday.
Banister inherits a Rangers' team that finished last in a loaded
American League West this year and abruptly lost popular manager Ron
Washington, who resigned due to personal reasons late in the season.
However, the next Texas manager has faced much greater challenges in
his life than turning around a baseball team.
Banister, who was the Pittsburgh Pirates' bench coach the past four
seasons, successfully battled bone cancer during his high school
days in Houston. He was also temporarily paralyzed from the waist
down for a few weeks. He was playing catcher and suffered a broken
neck when he was involved in a home plate collision.
--The Pittsburgh Pirates plan to extend the $15.3 million qualifying
offer to free-agent catcher Russell Martin, according to
CBSSports.com.
Martin was instrumental in helping the Pirates reach the postseason
for a second consecutive season.
He hit .290 with 11 home runs and 67 RBIs as well as a .402 on-base
percentage, one of the highest in the majors.
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--Pete Rose believes that his time is coming, he just doesn't know
if he'll be alive to see his bust in the Hall of Fame.
Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader (4,256) will appear on
"CBS Sunday Morning" on Sunday. Rose, who has been banned from
baseball for 25 years, opened up and says he does believe that one
day he will be enshrined in Cooperstown.
"I don't know if I'm going to live to see it," Rose tells CBS' Lee
Cowan. "Someone, at some period of time, will feel it in their heart
to give me a second chance. I might be six feet under, but that's
what you have to live with."
--Cuban second baseman Jose Fernandez has defected, according to
multiple reports.
The 26-year-old Fernandez is expected to seek a big league contract
and has been called a legitimate prospect ready for the majors
today.
According to a Baseball America scouting report, Fernandez is one
the three best Cuban ballplayers who are currently unavailable to
MLB teams. He bats from the left side and has superior contact
skills -- he struck out only 10 times in 214 at-bats last year.
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