Connections: Sports Edition Hint Today: Answers for Oct. 23, # 760

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition is 100% baseball-themed, as the World Series is about to start. Take me out to the ballgame! Read on for hints and the answers.

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group hint: They made it.

Green group hint: Not current teams.

Blue group hint: Pride of Milwaukee.

Purple group hint: Star players, with a twist.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: MLB teams to reach the League Championship Series this year.

Green group: Former MLB team names.

Blue group: Brewers All-Stars, historically.

Purple group: World Series MVPs, with the first letter changed.

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is MLB teams to reach the League Championship Series this year.

The four answers are Brewers, Dodgers, Guardians and Rays.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is former MLB team names.

The four answers are Browns, Devil Rays, Expos and Pilots.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is Brewers All-Stars, historically.

The four answers are (Prince) Fielder, (Rollie) Fingers, (Ben) Sheets and (Rickie) Weeks.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is World Series MVPs, with the first letter changed.

The four answers are camels (Cole Hamels), eye (Jermaine Dye), meager (Corey Seager or Steve Yeager) and meter (Derek Jeter).

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.

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