World Series

Houston took right-hander Seth Martinez, who did not pitch in the ALCS, off the roster to make room for Smith. The Phillies added utility player Nick Maton and ...

The left-handed hitter is the brother of Houston reliever Phil Maton, who is out for the season after breaking his pinkie punching a locker after giving up a hit to his brother in the team’s regular season finale. Maton was on the Wild Card roster but did not play in the series against St. Houston added left-hander reliever Will Smith, who was left the roster for the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Many in the southwestern Ontario town of Corruna will be watching and celebrating when Rob Thomson takes the field with the Philadelphia Phillies Friday ...

So at the museum itself, I tried to build a chronological display," Corner said. The exhibit features items, pictures and uniforms from when Thomson played as a child in Corunna all the way up until today. As a player, Thomson was good enough to play college baseball at the University of Kansas and was eventually drafted by the Detroit Tigers. He has also been instrumental in putting together an exhibit at the Moore Museum near Corunna that pays tribute to Thomson's baseball career. "With Rob on the big screen for the World Series it just shows that if Rob can do it, you know, from a small town in southern Ontario, then anyone can do it in Canada." He is about the team, he's about supporting the guys." For the past 30 years he has coached in the Detroit, New York Yankees and Philadelphia organizations. Thomson has traveled many places on his decades-long baseball journey, but has always remained close to the small town in which he grew up. "I love our country and what we're all about, but I really haven't thought about it in that way as the first Canadian to ever manage the World Series. It includes a pitcher of beer and a Philly pizza that's modelled after the famous Philly cheesesteak. In a sport like baseball that has been around for more than hundred years, it is rare for something to happen for the first time. Inside, staff is decked out in Phillies gear, proudly promoting the Rob Thomson World Series Special.

Rob Thomson of the Philadelphia Phillies is set to become the first Canadian-born manager to take a team to the World Series as his team prepares to face ...

Thomson could become only the third big league manager to win a World Series after being a midseason replacement. Dusty Baker, the 73-year-old manager in his second consecutive World Series with Houston, doesn't really know Thomson. Ten of those seasons were on the big league staff with Girardi and included New York's last World Series and title in 2009. "I'm very fortunate to do something that I love," Dombrowski said while sitting in the Phillies dugout, a day after the 25th anniversary of the Marlins' series-clinching Game 7 victory over Cleveland. He joined the expansion Florida Marlins in 1991, two years before their first game, and was the chief architect of their 1997 World Series championship. "But to tell you the truth I'm just happy to be managing a team in the World Series."

The 2022 World Series kicked off Friday night as the Houston Astros host the Philadelphia Phillies at Minute Maid Park in Game 1. The Phillies went through ...

The Astros quickly dispatched the [Seattle Mariners](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/SEA/seattle-mariners/) and [New York Yankees](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYY/new-york-yankees/). Louis Cardinals](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/STL/st-louis-cardinals/), the defending World Series champion [Atlanta Braves](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/ATL/atlanta-braves/), and [San Diego Padres](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/SD/san-diego-padres/) to reach this stage. I think they get there and take Game 1 behind a good but not truly great Verlander outing, and a middle innings rally featuring a [Yordan Alvarez](/mlb/players/2507341/yordan-alvarez/) homer into the Crawford Boxes. The Astros have won one World Series (2017), the Phillies two (1980 and 2008). [Houston Astros](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/HOU/houston-astros/) host the [Philadelphia Phillies](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/PHI/philadelphia-phillies/) at Minute Maid Park in Game 1. The Phillies reached the postseason for the first time since 2011 this year -- that was the National League's longest postseason drought -- and this is their first NL pennant since 2009.

Rob Thomson is set to become the first Canadian to manage in the World Series when his Philadelphia Phillies face the Houston Astros.

“He can tell you what it's like to fail in the ninth inning and above all, a lot of people that are telling you what to do -- and what not to do -- have never failed a test. “It's been in the back of my mind for a lot of years,” Thomson told reporters of getting a chance to manage after his extension was announced. After three seasons a special assignment instructor, he joined the major-league staff, enjoying an 11-year run in one of the game’s most volatile settings. “The coach that's been up there, he can tell you what it's like to be up there,” Baker continued. Hinch, who came into the role with a newer school lens after working in front-office roles before returning to the dugout. He was reunited with Girardi when the Phillies installed him as manager for the 2020 season, again left in the shadows until the team’s 2022 season was on the brink. “If maybe this opportunity didn’t come, then I don't know if he would have had a chance (to manage) because a lot of times you're in a position where, he's been in the game such a long time, very well respected I think anywhere you turn, but sometimes you get branded in a certain way, that you’re a No. In recent years, the industry trend of hiring young, inexperienced newer-age, high IQ coaches as managers has shifted back toward experienced, high emotional quotient or EQ coaches. You think, but you see hirings all the time where somebody comes up and is an outstanding co-ordinator in any sport, and then you put them in that role and it's not quite the same. “But I will also say you never know until somebody gets in that job, when they're a No. Perhaps no opportunity was a better fit than one in 2017, when after nearly three decades in the New York Yankees organization, he interviewed him to replace his close friend, the fired Joe Girardi. All Thomson, seemingly pigeon-holed in a supportive role, did was lead the Phillies to a 65-46 finish, clinching the final National League wild-card spot before wins against San Diego, St.

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Trey Mancini up to the plate with a runner on first and no one out. Astros scoring play: Kyle Tucker hits a no-doubt moonshot on a changeup to right off Nola to put the Astros on the board first. Gurriel advances to third to give Martin Maldonado a chance to hit with runners on the corners and only one out. The 2022 World Series is expected to start at 8:03 p.m. Now to the top of the order with Altuve. Astros scoring play: Maldonado pushes a single through the right side of the infield with McCormick running on the play, and catches Jean Segura heading to the bag. Tucker back up to bat with runners on the corners and one away. 9:23 p.m.: Realmuto hits a comebacker to Verlander, but he can't quite hang on for the catch. The Astros will bat in the bottom of the fifth in a 5-5 game. 10:27 p.m.: Gurriel with a dribbler to the left side. Phillies scoring play: Double by Realmuto off the top of the left field wall, and this is a tie game. The Phillies won only 87 games and reached the playoffs as the last NL wild-card team, and they have had to grind out series wins against the reigning World Series champion Braves and a loaded Padres squad.

The World Series got off to a good start for Nola when he opened with consecutive strikeouts of Jose Altuve and American League Championship Series MVP Jeremy ...

The night after Nola beat the Astros, Verlander struck out 10 over five innings in his last start of the regular season, and the bullpen gave up a no-hit bid in the ninth inning of that 10-0 win. Aaron Nola was nowhere near perfect for the Philadelphia Phillies in Houston this time. Louis and upset defending World Series champion Atlanta in the Division Series. Going into the World Series, that loss to Nola on Oct. Nola struck out Peña again to open the bottom of the inning, and with left-handed slugger Yordan Alvarez coming up, manager Rob Thomson replaced him with lefty Jose Alvarado. Tucker didn't miss on the sinker, hitting it nearly 400 feet into the Astros bullpen in right-center to make it 5-0.