Overview

• The Wild Card round opens Tuesday, Sept. 30, with Tigers at Guardians, Red Sox at Yankees, Padres at Cubs, and Reds at Dodgers, while the Blue Jays, Mariners, Brewers, and Phillies hold Division Series byes.
• New York will host Boston in a best-of-three at Yankee Stadium after Toronto claimed the AL East on the season-series tiebreaker with both clubs finishing 94-68.
• Cleveland completed a 15.5-game surge to capture the AL Central and will host Detroit in the other AL Wild Card series at Progressive Field.
• Cincinnati edged the Mets for the NL’s final berth via head-to-head and will travel to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers in a best-of-three.
• Aaron Judge secured his first AL batting title at .331 as teams finalize Wild Card rosters and pitching plans for the midweek slate.