Nearing the final week of the regular season, some of Major League Baseball’s playoff races have gotten unexpectedly tight to set up a wild finish. The Cleveland Guardians were 11 games behind the ...

After sitting in either first place in their division or at least in a wild card spot for almost the entire season, yesterday's loss to the Cardinals has dropped the Diamondbacks to a half game back ...

Mayhem finds a home at the end of MLB's regular season, nestling nicely between harrowing home runs and curveballs that frolic as they evade bats. The league expanded its postseason to 12 teams in ...

The 2025 MLB playoffs continued Thursday, and the wild-card round concluded with wins by the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees in a trio of winner-take-all games. Here's how it all ...

Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr has already put up one of the most impressive offensive seasons in baseball history, with not only just the 5th 40/40 season in baseball history, but also ...

The 2020 MLB playoffs are less than a week away, even though it seems like the regular season has barely kicked off. The compressed 60-game schedule is down to the final weekend, and the MLB standings ...

ESPN’s final year with Major League Baseball’s wild-card round was a historic one. The network announced Monday that the wild-card round of the playoffs last week averaged 4.6 million viewers. That’s ...

In the first three years of the expanded MLB playoff format, 10 of the 12 series in the Wild Card Round ended in sweeps. This year, baseball fans were treated to three win-or-go-home Game 3s to kick ...

The AFC wild-card picture was thrown into a chaotic crucible as Week 14 concluded, carving out a dangerous separation between ...