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Who is ready for October baseball? Well, we won't need to wait for the start of a new month in order to get some postseason action since the MLB playoffs begin Tuesday, the final day of September. That's when all four of the Wild Card Series will get underway.
The Mets round out the list of wild card entrants, holding a slim one-game advantage over the Diamondbacks and Reds. Cincinnati holds the tiebreaker over both New York and Arizona, having won its season series against each team. The Cardinals and Marlins were the two most recent teams to be eliminated from NL playoff contention.
Preview the Sept. 30 NL Wild Card Game 1 matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds with recent trends, how to watch, livestream info, and more.
Major League Baseball today announced the broadcast schedule for the first two days of the 2025 Wild Card Series. The 2025 Postseason will have four Wild Card Series games scheduled each day from Tuesday through Thursday under a best-of-three format,
The final day of the 2025 MLB regular season has arrived. Every team has played 161 games and, for a few, Game 162 will decide their postseason fate. One spot in the tournament remain up for grabs on the season's final day as well as the AL East and AL Central. There's also one Wild Card Series bye undecided and some seeding to sort out.
Preview the Sept. 30 NL Wild Card Game 1 matchup between the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres with odds over/under, game spread, betting lines and more.
Clayton Kershaw will officially make his final MLB regular season start on Sunday when the Dodgers face the Mariners to close out the 2025 season. The three-time Cy Young award winner will retire after this season, but his retirement is delayed as the Dodgers clinched a playoff spot.
The playoff field remained at five teams aside, save for one exception, until 2022. That exception, naturally, was the pandemic-impacted 2020 campaign. MLB countered the 60-game season by expanding the playoff field to 16 teams overall, the most in league history.