National League Wild Card Game: Giants 3, Mets 0 ( recap) Division Series Thursday, Oct.

4ДЄmerican League Wild Card Game: Blue Jays 5, Orioles 2 ( recap) Wednesday, Oct. *if necessary Wild Card Games Tuesday, Oct. San Francisco Giants (87-75), NL Wild Card Bracket Los Angeles Dodgers (91-71), NL West winner Washington Nationals (95-67), NL East winner TeamsД¬leveland Indians (94-67), AL Central winner Over a span of 30 days, the games will be televised by a myriad of networks, including ESPN, MLB Network, TBS, Fox Sports 1, and Fox. The Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, while the Indians' last title was in 1948. The Indians kept the momentum going with some great pitching, dispatching the Blue Jays in give games, earning Cleveland's first trip to the Fall Classic since 1997. Cleveland completed a three-game sweep of Boston with a 4-3 win on Monday thanks to a clutch home run from Coco Crisp. 315/.401/.620 with 38 home runs and 48 doubles in the greatest farewell season in baseball history, but couldn't lead the Red Sox past the Indians. Toronto then met the Texas Rangers in the ALDS for a second straight year, with the same result, only this time in three games, a Blue Jays sweep.Дavid Ortiz hit. Both the Blue Jays and Orioles won 89 games in 2016, and needed extra innings to decide the AL Wild Card Game in Toronto with Edwin Encarnacion hitting a three-run home run to send Jays fans home happy. The American League East was well represented in October, with both Wild Card teams coming from the division. The Cubs were tested by the Giants, but ultimately dispatched San Francisco in four games in the NLDS, ending the Giants' even-year championship run.Д¬hicago then beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, winners of the NL West for four straight seasons, in the NLCS in six games, capturing the Cubs' first pennant in 71 years. The Mets couldn't give the Cubs a playoff rematch, instead falling at home to the San Francisco Giants in the NL Wild Card Game, behind a shutout from Madison Bumgarner and a three-run home run in the ninth inning by Conor Gillaspie. The Cubs lost to the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series in 2015, but are favored to win the World Series this year. Plenty of stories abound with the teams that did make it to the postseason this year, led by the juggernaut Cubs, a 103-win superteam who made it to their first World Series since 1945. But in the end there stood just one, the Chicago Cubs, who beat the Cleveland Indians in seven games for their first World Series championship since 1908. ItвЂ™ll be Jake Arrieta for Chicago against Trevor Bauer for Cleveland - so long as BauerвЂ™s pinkie can avoid opening up and bleeding everywhere again.The 2016 MLB playoffs are here, starting with 10 teams vying for World Series supremacy. The Indians and Cubs resume the World Series on Wednesday, but at 7:08 p.m. Those were his second and third homers of the postseason, with the first coming in the ALDS against the Red Sox. The Indians catcher went deep with a solo shot in the fourth, and then hit a three-run jack in the eighth off of former Cubs closer Hector Rondon. Miller was the bridge to closer Cody Allen, and the trio combined to shut the Cubs out.Д¬leveland broke things open in the eighth, courtesy of Roberto Perez. The idea was two-fold, as Miller is the best reliever in baseball, and Kluber now had a relatively easygoing Game 1 if it turns out heвЂ™s needed on short rest or has to be worked harder on regular rest in his next start. Andrew Miller came into the game in the seventh after Kluber gave up a leadoff single to Ben Zobrist, even though Kluber had thrown just 88 pitches. The reason Kluber lasted for six innings and not more is due to the bullpen behind him. He set a franchise record for strikeouts with nine - the previous Cleveland record was seven - while scattering four hits without allowing a walk. Kluber threw вЂњjustвЂќ six innings, but did plenty with those frames. Cleveland was in control throughout, as it put up two runs against Jon Lester in the first inning to give Corey Kluber and the IndiansвЂ™ bullpen plenty of breathing room for the rest of the game. Game 1 of the 2016 World Series is in the books, and the Indians lead the series 1-0 after defeating the Cubs, 6-0.

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