Eight teams stay successful the 2022 postseason. After today's league part bid games, that fig could beryllium chopped astir successful half.
Three teams way their best-of-five bid and are facing elimination. In the American League, the Seattle Mariners play their archetypal location playoff crippled successful much than 20 years, hoping to avert a expanse against the Houston Astros.
In the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies jumped connected the Atlanta Braves aboriginal successful a 9-1 NLDS Game 3 triumph Friday nighttime and are present 1 triumph distant from eliminating the defending champions. And the San Diego Padres volition instrumentality the tract successful Game 4 with a accidental to sound retired the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers aft holding connected for a 2-1 triumph successful Game 3.
The lone bid that can't extremity today? The different ALDS matchup, betwixt the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians, who divided the archetypal 2 games successful Bronx.
Follow the enactment beneath each time agelong with commencement times, pitching matchups and starting lineups arsenic they're announced, followed by in-game updates and takeaways aft each crippled is concluded.
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Atlanta Braves astatine Philadelphia Phillies (2:07 ET connected FS1)
Phillies pb bid 2-1
Braves starter: Charlie Morton (9-6, 205 K, 4.34 ERA)
Phillies starter: Noah Syndergaard (10-10, 95 K, 3.94 ERA)
Starting lineups:
BRAVES
TBD
PHILLIES
TBD
Why this bid is over: The Phillies get different location game. And aft a chaotic country Friday -- for their archetypal location playoff crippled since 2011 -- what's to accidental it won't beryllium adjacent louder with their squad successful enactment to advance? Meanwhile, Braves pitching is simply a messiness close now. Max Fried pitched while sick successful Game 1, and Spencer Strider looked rusty aft returning from an wounded successful Game 3. Now Atlanta volition crook to Charlie Morton for Game 4 -- usually a coagulated option. But helium hasn't pitched successful 2 weeks and is coming disconnected a unspeakable September, erstwhile helium compiled a 5.40 ERA. The defending champs could beryllium successful large trouble. -- Jesse Rogers
Why it isn't: The Braves person been down successful the playoffs before, and though Morton hasn't looked great, he's been known arsenic a big-game pitcher implicit the past fewer Octobers. Plus, Philadelphia conscionable utilized its 2 aces successful Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola, truthful Syndergaard (or immoderate enactment Philly had to take from) is astatine slightest a notch beneath the past 2 starters. The Braves are ever connected the verge of a location tally detonation -- and Saturday would beryllium an perfect clip for one. -- Rogers
Houston Astros astatine Seattle Mariners (4:07 ET connected TBS)
Astros pb bid 2-0
Astros starter: Lance McCullers Jr. (4-2, 50 K, 2.27 ERA)
Mariners starter: George Kirby (8-5, 133 K, 3.39 ERA)
Starting lineups:
ASTROS
TBD
MARINERS
TBD
Why this bid is over: The Astros are the Astros. They triumph successful October. They've gotten to the ALCS 5 consecutive years and a less-talented squad won't halt them from a sixth. And the information that they've got Lance McCullers Jr. -- with his 2.27 ERA successful 47.2 innings -- connected the mound and Jose Altuve (hitless successful 2 games) acceptable to interruption retired are among the myriad reasons the Mariners' solid slipper is primed to break. -- Jeff Passan
Why it isn't: Even arsenic a rookie, George Kirby ranks among the astir businesslike strike-throwers successful baseball. And considering however disciplined the Astros are, a pitcher needs to unrecorded successful the onslaught portion with premium stuff, similar Kirby, to bushed Houston. The Mariners were up successful Game 1. They were up again successful Game 2. Now, fueled by Seattle's archetypal postseason assemblage successful 20 years, they'll unit a Game 4. -- Passan
New York Yankees astatine Cleveland Guardians (7:37 ET connected TBS)
Series tied 1-1
Yankees starter: Luis Severino (7-3, 112 K, 3.18 ERA)
Guardians starter: Triston McKenzie (11-11, 190 K, 2.96 ERA)
Starting lineups:
YANKEES
TBD
GUARDIANS
TBD
Why the Yankees volition triumph this series: Eventually Aaron Judge has to get going, right? And the Guardians' discourtesy can't bloop its mode to different 4 runs, right? And the Cleveland bullpen volition beryllium gassed aft Friday's game, right? We've seen batch of play implicit these tight, low-scoring archetypal 2 games. But what we haven't seen is the New York discourtesy flex its sizeable muscle. It's clip for that to happen. Right? -- Bradford Doolittle
Why the Guardians volition win: The look for the Guardians was connected show successful Game 2. The starter battles done the Yankees' lineup 2 oregon 3 times and gets it to the bullpen, which does the rest. This is however Cleveland has been winning for weeks and there's nary crushed wherefore it can't proceed successful beforehand of a revved up location assemblage this weekend. -- Doolittle
Los Angeles Dodgers astatine San Diego Padres (9:37 ET connected FS1)
Padres pb bid 2-1
Dodgers starter: Tyler Anderson
Padres starter: Joe Musgrove
Starting lineups:
DODGERS
TBD
PADRES
TBD
Why this bid is over: If you felt the vigor astatine Petco Park connected Friday night, you'd cognize why. In Game 4, the Padres volition erstwhile again person a raucous sold-out assemblage down them and the cleanable pitcher connected the mound -- Musgrove, the San Diego autochthonal and lifelong Padres instrumentality who dreamed of pitching connected a nighttime similar this and is caller disconnected shutting down the Mets successful the decisive crippled of the erstwhile series. -- Alden Gonzalez
Why it isn't: It's the Dodgers, for crying retired loud. They didn't triumph 111 regular-season games for nary reason. Heck, they didn't triumph 14 of those games against these Padres for nary reason. The Dodgers had plentifulness of opportunities to drawback leads successful Games 2 and 3 -- and simply didn't travel done with runners successful scoring position. At immoderate point, 1 would think, they will. They're excessively bully not to. -- Gonzalez
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