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With the Wild Card Series round in the books, the 2025 postseason moves on to its next phase: the best-of-five Division Series. The first Division Series matchup was set on Wednesday night -- after sweeping the Reds in the National League Wild Card Series,
All NLDS games air on TBS, while Fox and FS1 split coverage of the ALDS. The schedules for Games 3-5 will be announced as the series progress. Winners from the Division Series move on to the League Championship Series beginning Sunday, October 12. Game 1 of the World Series is scheduled for Friday, October 24.
Major League Baseball’s playoffs now move into the Division Series this weekend. All four series begin Saturday.
There will be stars aplenty in the Division Series of the Major League Baseball playoffs. The Wild Card round is behind us, with the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers all advancing to the next round. Each of those squads will take on a team that got some extra rest by earning a bye into the Division Series.
The Mariners are ESPN's choice to advance to the World Series, also, with a panel-high 14 votes to win the ALCS (the Yankees were second with seven votes). Five voters on the panel picked the Mariners to win it all, second behind only the Philadelphia Phillies from the National League.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine while pitching into the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers broke it open with a four-run sixth inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 on Wednesday night and advance to the National League Division Series.
In the wild-card series that determines who the Brewers will play in the NLDS, the San Diego Padres got 15 votes and the Chicago Cubs 10. In the NLDS, the experts gave the Brewers a narrow edge, 13-11, over the Padres, with only one picking the Cubs.
The 2025 MLB wild-card round was exactly that — wild. Three of the four wild-card series went to three games, and now it's time for the divisional round. The Tigers saved face after blowing a 15.5-game lead in the American League Central,
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