The 2025 Major League Baseball postseason is set to kick off on Tuesday with a quartet of wild-card games. From there, the race to the World Series will be on.

No matter what happened, the last day of Disney’s expiring contract with Major League Baseball was coming Thursday. ESPN and ABC will go out with a bang. MORE: Netflix’s Montreal Expos documentary looks like a true crime thriller For only the second time in the history of baseball’s postseason,

The second day of the 2025 MLB playoffs is in the books and three out of four series are headed to a do-or-die Game 3. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the lone team to wrap up their Wild Card Series, sweeping the Cincinnati Reds in dominating fashion.

Five of the six wild-card spots in the American and National Leagues are still up for grabs entering the final week of the MLB regular season.

The New York Yankees eliminated their arch-rivals, the Boston Red Sox from playoff contention with an exhilarating three-game series from Yankee Stadium. While

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 up 64% from last year’s games and a record in the history of the three-game wild card format.

The MLB postseason continues Thursday with the AL and NL wild-card series. Which squads will come out on top and advance to the next round of the playoffs?

While the World Series is Major League Baseball's grand finale, the wild-card series is the opening act of the postseason. Check out key facts about the MLB wild-card process and history below. What is a wild card? A wild card is given to MLB teams in each ...

First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 4-for-4 with a single, two doubles and a home run, plus an intentional walk. And veteran starter Shane Bieber held Seattle down on offense, recording eight strikeouts while allowing two runs and four hits across the first six innings.