We're down to 8 teams successful the 2022 postseason aft 4 were eliminated this past play successful MLB's first-ever wild-card bid weekend. Now it's connected to the league part series: 4 series, best-of-five, archetypal squad to triumph 3 advances.
The Philadelphia Phillies volition conflict the defending champion Atlanta Braves successful the archetypal crippled of the part bid round, followed by 2 AL West rivals, the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners, facing off. The New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians volition duke it retired successful the 2nd ALDS, and, finally, an intradivision showdown betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres successful the 2nd NLDS caps disconnected a jam-packed Tuesday.
How volition the 4 survivors fare against the apical squads?
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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Philadelphia Phillies astatine Atlanta Braves (1:07 ET connected FOX)
Series tied 0-0
Phillies starter: Ranger Suarez (10-7, 129 K, 3.65 ERA)
Braves starter: Max Fried (14-7, 170 K, 2.48 ERA)
Starting lineups:
PHILLIES
TBD
BRAVES
TBD
How they lucifer up against each other: This is simply a part rival matchup betwixt archetypal 16 teams -- some franchises day backmost to the 19th period -- but the Phillies and Braves person met conscionable erstwhile successful the postseason: In the 1993 NLCS, erstwhile the Phillies upset the Braves successful six games. The Braves are trying to go the archetypal squad to unafraid back-to-back World Series titles since the 2000 Yankees won 3 successful a enactment and they're riding the question of stealing the NL East from the Mets successful the last week, going 78-34 since June 1 -- the champion grounds successful the majors implicit that span.
The Braves won the play bid 11-8 and portion the Phillies ended up outscoring the Braves 88-85, the Braves took 3 of the 4 one-run games. Austin Riley deed .351 against the Phillies, but with conscionable 1 location tally successful 19 games; Matt Olson deed 5 location runs against the Phillies, but deed conscionable .191. The Phillies volition beryllium astatine a disadvantage since they'll spell with No. 3 starter Suarez successful the opener aft playing successful the wild-card series, but Suarez had a coagulated 3.21 ERA successful 5 starts against the Braves. Keep an oculus connected Zach Eflin: The Phillies utilized the erstwhile starter to decorativeness disconnected some wins against the St. Louis Cardinals, including his 2nd vocation prevention successful Game 2. -- David Schoenfield
Seattle Mariners astatine Houston Astros (3:37 ET connected TBS)
Series tied 0-0
Mariners starter: TBD
Astros starter: Justin Verlander (18-4, 185 K, 1.75 ERA)
Starting lineups:
MARINERS
TBD
ASTROS
TBD
How they lucifer up against each other: After their melodramatic wild-card bid triumph implicit the Toronto Blue Jays, the Mariners are present assured their archetypal location playoff crippled since 2001. The question: Can they debar a expanse and play a 2nd location game? Their biggest obstacle volition beryllium figuring retired Houston's Game 1 starter, Justin Verlander -- who would besides enactment up to transportation a 2nd crippled successful the series. Not lone did helium let nary hits successful 3 of his last six starts of the season, Verlander dominated the Mariners successful 2022, going 5-1 with a 2.34 ERA.
The Astros won the play bid 12-7 with a tiny plus-8 tally differential, truthful the teams were beauteous adjacent successful the non-Verlander games, but, to advance, it feels similar the Mariners volition request to bushed Verlander astatine slightest once. While moving connected would beryllium immense for Seattle, it's World Series oregon bust for Houston. With 106 wins -- their 4th 100-win play since 2017 -- the Astros person a accidental to enactment a "dynasty" stamp connected this epoch with a 2nd World Series rubric successful six years. -- Schoenfield
Cleveland Guardians astatine New York Yankees (7:37 ET connected TBS)
Series tied 0-0
Guardians starter: Cal Quantrill (15-5, 128 K, 3.38 ERA)
Yankees starter: Gerrit Cole (13-8, 257 K, 3.50 ERA)
Starting lineups:
GUARDIANS
TBD
YANKEES
TBD
How they lucifer up against each other: This is simply a precise antithetic Yankees squad than the 1 the Guardians faced during the season. New York is much hobbled with injuries, particularly successful the bullpen, and the New York discourtesy has struggled with consistency successful the 2nd half. Cleveland has large imaginable to upset New York successful this bid fixed the Yankees' inconsistencies connected some sides of the ball. In bid to determination onto the ALCS, the Yankees volition request beardown performances from the rotation to instrumentality unit disconnected an inconsistent and injured bullpen.
On the flip side, this is not the aforesaid Guardians squad that New York squared disconnected against aboriginal successful the season. This is simply a radical that has been truly beardown successful the 2nd fractional and has seen emerging stars up and down the roster, from Steven Kwan to Andres Gimenez to Triston McKenzie. -- Joon Lee
San Diego Padres astatine Los Angeles Dodgers (9:37 ET connected FS1)
Series tied 0-0
Padres starter: Mike Clevinger (7-7, 91 K, 4.33 ERA)
Dodgers starter: TBD
Starting lineups:
PADRES
TBD
DODGERS
TBD
How they lucifer up against each other: Padres proprietor Peter Seidler, appearing connected ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball successful August, referred to the Dodgers arsenic "the dragon up the freeway that we're trying to slay." That dragon has often seemed insurmountable. The Padres person spent these past 4 years doing everything they tin -- stripping the workplace strategy bare, pushing the payroll to unforeseen levels -- successful an effort to instrumentality down the squad that resides 125 miles to the north. But the Dodgers person dominated the Padres successful each facet, winning their past 9 games against them past twelvemonth and scoring astir doubly arsenic galore runs arsenic them successful this year's play series.
The Padres played the Dodgers pugnacious successful the 2020 NLDS, but they had Fernando Tatis Jr. then. They don't now. What they person is Juan Soto. In bid to person a accidental this week, Soto and Manny Machado request to bash the dense lifting for the offense, Josh Hader needs to predominate successful the backmost extremity of the bullpen and the starting pitchers -- the Padres' 1 existent advantage, if they person 1 -- request to bash what they did successful Queens. But you person to wonderment astir the Padres' assurance going into a bid similar this. They are precise overmuch the small member successful this dynamic, and they support getting bullied. -- Alden Gonzalez
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