There have been 40 winner-take-all Game 5s in Division Series history since the best-of-five series was added to the postseason docket in 1995, when MLB expanded to allow a Wild Card team from each league. That list grew by two in 2025, courtesy of the Mariners' thrilling 15-inning win over

Kyle Schwarber, who hit 56 home runs this past season for the Phillies, and who still might end up beating out Shohei Ohtani for National League MVP, is about to become a free agent. That is a lot of home runs to hit the market and more RBIs – 132

LOS ANGELES -- Orion Kerkering slid his hands onto his knees. He hung his head. He couldn’t look up. The Phillies’ season ended in the cruelest, most unfathomable way on Thursday evening at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers had the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 11th

LOS ANGELES -- Phillies manager Rob Thomson had everything on his mind, except himself. The Phillies’ season ended Thursday with a 2-1 walk-off loss to the Dodgers in 11 innings in Game 4 of the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium. The Phils took a 1-0 lead in the

LOS ANGELES -- The Phillies knew their path to the World Series was about to get a lot tougher when they found out in mid-August that Zack Wheeler would miss the rest of the season. He's the team's bona fide ace. He was a legitimate NL Cy Young contender at

LOS ANGELES -- This is Tyler Glasnow’s dream job. Not just pitching for the Dodgers -- the team he grew up rooting for in nearby Santa Clarita -- but pitching for the Dodgers in the postseason.

LOS ANGELES -- Roki Sasaki tracked the path of the ball as it traveled through the evening sky, a high popup that was snagged by third baseman Kiké Hernández for the final out of the top of the ninth. He clapped into his mitt as he walked off the mound,

LOS ANGELES -- Nick Castellanos watched from right field as Orion Kerkering’s ill-advised throw home sailed over catcher J.T. Realmuto to end the Phillies’ season. Castellanos saw the Dodgers pour out of the third-base dugout, sprinting past a stunned Kerkering to swarm Andy Pages at first base to celebrate their

LOS ANGELES -- Andy Pages just kept running.

LOS ANGELES -- It all seemed to unfold in slow motion.

The Dodgers won an exhilarating Game 4 in the 2025 NLDS against the Phillies to advance to their second straight NLCS. This year’s matchup in the National League Division Series marked the first time the Phillies and Dodgers have faced each other in the postseason since 2009 and their sixth

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers are still just one win away from punching their ticket to the National League Championship Series, but the Phillies have made things much more interesting.

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers will be without lefty reliever Tanner Scott for the remainder of their NLDS against the Phillies and all of the NLCS, should they reach it.

If we learned anything from Wednesday’s National League Division Series action, it’s that no one’s going down easily. Now we’re one step closer to seeing at least one rare comeback. The Cubs and Phillies were facing elimination but rebounded with Game 3 victories to save their seasons. Even better, both

LOS ANGELES -- It was only the seventh inning when Phillies closer Jhoan Duran started throwing in the right-field bullpen on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium. Duran had not thrown more than one inning in any outing since being acquired by Philadelphia at the Trade Deadline. He hadn’t entered a

LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes one good swing is all it takes to end a slump -- or, perhaps, turn around an entire series. Especially when it's a swing like the one Kyle Schwarber delivered in the fourth inning of the Phillies' 8-2 victory in a must-win Game 3 of the

LOS ANGELES -- Phillies manager Rob Thomson thought about the things he might say to the Phillies before Game 3 of the NL Division Series on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium. They faced elimination in the best-of-five series, which meant Game 3 might be their final hours together. But it

LOS ANGELES -- For most of the 48 pitches Clayton Kershaw threw on Wednesday, he was just trying to get to the next one. “You just try to get people out,” Kershaw said. “I wasn't throwing strikes, and it's hard to pitch behind in the count."

LOS ANGELES -- Lefty reliever Tanner Scott was away from the team for personal reasons during Game 3 of the NL Division Series, manager Dave Roberts said after the Dodgers' 8-2 loss to the Phillies on Wednesday night.

LOS ANGELES -- Hours before Game 3 of the NL Division Series, in which the Dodgers had the chance to sweep the Phillies and end their season, several members of the team reflected on the importance of momentum in postseason series.

Will Smith, who's been utilized off the bench by the Dodgers during the playoffs after suffering a hairline fracture in his right hand in early September, was in the starting lineup for the first time this postseason for NLDS Game 3 against the Phillies on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.

PHILADELPHIA -- Three weeks after celebrating their second straight division title in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium, the Phillies return to Los Angeles this week just hoping to keep their season alive. The Dodgers, meanwhile, return home for Game 3 of the NLDS on Wednesday night with a commanding

Here’s something we won’t be able to say until Spring Training next year: If you want to watch four Major League Baseball games today, you can. Heck: Don’t you have to? Thanks to the Yankees rallying to stave off elimination on Tuesday night, we’ve got baseball all day on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES -- Roki Sasaki needed just one out. The tying run was 90 feet away. Phillies fans had Citizens Bank Park rocking. But Sasaki didn’t hear any of them.

LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts spent his 33rd birthday similarly to how he passes the majority of his days during the baseball season: putting in work on the diamond, with the added excitement of a potential NL Division Series clincher on the horizon.