mlb playoffs
The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Lois Cardinals will be beginning their post season against each other on Friday Oct. 3. The series will be a rematch of the 2013 National League Championship Series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals kick off their National League Championship Series Friday night, with Los Angeles looking to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1988 and the Cardinals on a quest for their second title in three years.
The Boston Red Sox successfully advanced to the American League Championship series for the first time since 2008. But unlike the overwhelming big bats they had in previous postseason campaigns, the Red Sox leaned on their speedy and gritty unit led by Shane Victorino.
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send 23-year-old rookie Gerrit Cole in a must-win elimination game and will face Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals in Wednesday's Game 5 of the National League Division Series.
Tampa Bay Rays Jose Lobaton came off the bench and blasted a walkoff solo homerun off Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara to extend the American League Division Series to Game 4. Jake Peavy goes to the mound for the REd Sox against the Rays Jeremy Hellickson Tuesday night.
Michael Wacha kept the St. Louis Cardinals' season alive taking a no-hitter into the eighth inning in the Cardinals 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pittsburgh Pirates will try to advance to the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Monday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Locked in a 1-1 series stalemate, the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics are expected to go all out in perhaps the most pivotal game of the best-of-five American League Division Series on Monday at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.
Both the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers are sending a pair of rookies, South Korean Hyun-Jin Ryu and Colombian Julio Teheran, as both team trying to a game lead with the National League Division Series tied 1-1.
The Boston Red Sox, coming off a sensational 12-2 win in Friday's series opener, will try to book a commanding 2-0 series lead against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday at Fenway Park.
Detroit Tigers will kick off its quest to become World Series champion on Friday as they visit the ever dangerous Oakland Athletics in Game 1 of the American League Division Series playoff at O.co Coliseum.
The Atlanta Braves will start Mike Minor at pitcher, looking not to go down 0-2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers after Thursday night's loss. The Dodgers send Zack Greinke - who is sporting a 1.58 ERA in 12 starts since late July.
The Tampa Bay Rays continue their arduous road trip that started Sunday in Toronto, as they head to Boston for their Game 1 match-up against the Red Sox in the American League Division Series. Matt Moore (17-4 with 3.29 ERA) will pitch for the Rays against the Red Sox Jon Lester (15-8 with a 3.75) in Friday afternoon's game.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, still riding the momentum from their raucous home crowd in the 6-2 National League Wild Card game victory over the Cincinnati Reds, head to St. Louis for the start of their National League Division Series against the Cardinals, who ended the season with three games ahead of Pittsburgh for the National League Central title and the best record in the National League
