MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers had the best record in baseball. The Padres finished as the hottest team in baseball. Their National League Division Series was always likely to be decided by the slimmest of margins. But seriously? A cable on the roof of American Family Field?

ST. PETERSBURG -- Sitting behind a table inside a mostly quiet Tropicana Field on Friday afternoon, Rays ace Drew Rasmussen tried to make it sound simple. The complex science and mysterious art that is pitching in the Major Leagues, he said, isn’t that complicated. “I'm a pretty big believer that

LOS ANGELES -- The temperature at first pitch registered at a sizzling 100° F as the NL Division Series opener between the Dodgers and Braves got underway on Saturday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. But the Braves had an additional source of triple-digit heat bearing down on them: Tarik Skubal.

There are some baseball plays that leave you speechless ... or even a little confused. We saw that in Game 1 of the 2026 NLDS between the Brewers and Padres in Milwaukee. With the Padres trailing 3-2 in the ninth inning, San Diego's Ty France hit a towering fly ball

MILWAUKEE -- William Contreras didn’t have to hustle down the line on this one. The Brewers were happy to watch him trot.

CLEVELAND -- The question no longer seems to be whether the White Sox will emerge victorious in American League playoff action. It’s now: Will the South Siders ever fall behind?

That’s how you start a postseason run. Drew Rasmussen turned in a gem in the Rays' 1-0 win in Game 1 of the American League Division Series, allowing one hit in eight scoreless innings. He came close to writing his name into the history books, not allowing that hit until

MILWAUKEE -- Jacob Misiorowski’s first inning began with the fastest fastball on record in the postseason. His second inning was a long slog.

On Saturday, the Dodgers, after setting themselves up for this moment all season, looked very ready and potentially dominant against the Braves. Meanwhile, the Padres and Brewers played a barnburner, featuring one of the wilder (and more consequential) home-run-that-wasn’t-a-home-run moments you’ll ever see, a Ty France moonshot off the roof

CLEVELAND -- Take a look at any media coverage in Japan this weekend, and Munetaka Murakami’s performance with the White Sox is sure to be featured. “Yeah, of course. It’s big news,” former big leaguer Kazuo Matsui told MLB.com Saturday evening at Progressive Field. “Huge in Japan.”

ST. PETERSBURG -- American League Cy Young Award front-runner Cam Schlittler said Saturday afternoon what his incredible numbers away from Yankee Stadium would already suggest: He likes pitching on the road. More specifically, he likes the feeling of “silencing” someone else’s home crowd. But he wasn’t worried about that as

MILWAUKEE -- Jackson Chourio is only 22. Nobody in Brewers history has hit more postseason home runs. And he’s never hit one harder than he did Saturday.

LOS ANGELES -- If you spent any time around Chavez Ravine this summer, you heard the hum surrounding Kyle Tucker and Teoscar Hernández.

ST. PETERSBURG -- Before Jonathan Aranda stepped to the plate in the bottom of the third inning Saturday night, he felt the crowd inside Tropicana Field. Blue rally towels waved throughout the stands. Cowbells rang. But once Aranda swung at the fifth pitch he saw from Gerrit Cole in his

There’s no greater challenge, or opportunity, for a starting pitcher than taking the ball in October, and there are some nights where everything aligns. MLB history has seen more than 3,000 postseason starts, but only a few pitchers have even crossed the seven-inning threshold with a no-hitter bid. And, of

LOS ANGELES -- “Will Chris Sale start Game 2 of the National League Division Series?” has been a popular question ever since the veteran hurler recorded the final four outs of Game 3 of the NL Wild Card Series with just one day of rest. “When we came in [Thursday

ST. PETERSBURG – The Yankees have spent months touting their starting rotation as an October advantage. One loss hasn’t changed that – if anything, it sets up the first real test of a formula they still believe can carry them deep into this postseason. Saturday’s opener of the American League

LOS ANGELES – While addressing the media at Dodger Stadium on Saturday morning, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman smiled as he said that having an abundance of quality starting pitchers improves his quality of life. Thanks to an overabundance of injuries, Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos

ST. PETERSBURG – You’ll often hear pitchers lament that they “only made one mistake,” and often what that actually means is they only made one mistake that they ended up paying for. For Gerrit Cole on Saturday, though, it’s hard to point to more than one mistake. Unfortunately for Cole

LOS ANGELES -- The Braves made things interesting late, but the well-rested Dodgers held on for a 5-3 victory in Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Saturday at Dodger Stadium. There’s still a lot of baseball left in the series, but a few storylines that may go

CLEVELAND -- After excelling in relief in his first taste of the Majors, rookie lefty Hagen Smith has become a secret weapon of sorts for the White Sox with his ability to both serve as an effective short-term starter in bullpen games and possibly even as a reliever going forward.

MILWAUKEE -- A clash between baseball's best team in the regular season -- the Brewers -- and one of the hottest teams down the stretch -- the Padres -- lived up to the hype. It was a tense battle throughout Saturday's Game 1 of the National League Division Series before

CLEVELAND -- The last pitch was a big curveball that dropped in the dirt as it induced an awkward half-swing from Travis Bazzana. When third-base umpire Jansen Visconti ruled that Bazzana had gone around for strike three, Grant Taylor let out a primal roar louder than what little contact he

CLEVELAND -- The raucous crowd at Progressive Field went silent as the deep drive off the bat of White Sox DH Tommy Pham kept carrying to left field. Game 1 of the ALDS was about to get out of hand.

MLB has announced the complete broadcast schedule for the American and National League Division Series presented by Booking.com. All four series began on Saturday under a best-of-five format, with the ALDS airing on TNT Sports platforms and the NLDS airing on FOX/FS1, FOX Deportes and FOX One. The ALDS will