National League Division Series, Chicago Cubs
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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.
The Phillies and Dodgers will square off in a showdown between NL titans. Here are the best picks and bets to make for the NLDS.
Major League Baseball today announced the broadcast schedule for Game 2 of each National League Division Series presented by Booking.com to be played on Monday, October 6th, following yesterday’s announcement with the schedule for the first two days of the Division Series.
Major League Baseball’s playoffs now move into the Division Series this weekend. All four series begin Saturday.
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.
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.
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.
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