At last, we have playoff baseball. (It has been 335 days, exactly 11 months, since our last MLB postseason game. That’s too many days!) In a month or so, we will know the 2026 World Series champion, but we have…
The 2026 MLB postseason begins Tuesday with the opening games of the Wild Card Series. The National League matchup features the Philadelphia Phillies traveling to face the Atlanta Braves, with starting pitchers Jesús Luzardo and Chris Sale scheduled to square off. Philadelphia enters after a difficult 5-10 stretch that required a final-day 7-3 victory to secure their fifth consecutive postseason berth.
In the American League, the Chicago White Sox visit the Houston Astros. Houston enters the series after becoming the first division winner since 1969 to finish the regular season without an above-.500 record. The winner of the series advances to face Cleveland in Game 1 of the AL Division Series on Saturday.
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