Overview

• Los Angeles swept Cincinnati 2-0 behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s strong Game 2, setting up an NLDS against Philadelphia.
• Detroit beat Cleveland 6-3 in Game 3, riding Dillon Dingler’s homer and a four-run seventh to earn an ALDS date with Seattle.
• Padres–Cubs tilts toward a bullpen battle after heavy workloads, with Yu Darvish and Jameson Taillon starting and Mason Miller on a record strikeout run to open his postseason.
• Yankees–Red Sox decides at Yankee Stadium with rookies Cam Schlittler and Connelly Early starting after New York’s Game 2 was flipped by Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s dash and Austin Wells’ late single.
• Thursday features three winner-take-all games on one day for only the second time on record, concentrating the final two berths in the Division Series.