#NL Wild Card Series

The 2020 Miami Marlins were easily Major League Baseball's surprise team. Now it's time to see how they follow it up. After losing 105 games and finishing last in the National League East in 2019, Miami turned the corner in Year Three of the rebuild in a shortened 60-game season by going 31-29. Extrapolated to a 162-game season, that translates to…

The 2022 Major League Baseball regular season and playoffs have come to a close and that means it's time for the 2022 World Series. Let's dive into the 2022 postseason schedule and the latest MLB playoffs bracket. Bookmark this page for updates on predictions, the schedule and the bracket for the 2022 MLB playoffs. Our projected 2022 MLB postseason…

Welcome to my series of Report Card postings for individual members of the 2022 Cardinals. I strive to present a thorough profile for each player, and that takes time because I'm also writing about other topics. Today, this one is pretty simple and easy. Next Up: Paul Goldschmidt. I figured it was appropriate to highlight his 2022 season on Nov.…

Game 1 of the NL Wild Card series between the Cincinnati Reds (31-29 regular season) and Atlanta Braves (35-25) starts Wednesday at Truist Park at 12:08 p.m. ET (on ESPN). Below, we analyze the Reds-Braves MLB betting odds and lines, with picks and best bets. RHP Trevor Bauer vs. LHP Max Fried Bauer: 5-4 with a 1.73 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, 12.3 K/9 and 2.1…

The San Diego Padres hope to keep the momentum going after last year's playoff appearance, the franchise's first since 2006. Below, we look at the San Diego Padres' MLB futures odds, including their projected 2021 win total and World Series odds at BetMGM. The Friars finished 37-23 in the pandemic-shortened season, placing second in the NL West.…

The Houston Astros are heavy favorites to win the World Series, but the odds are shifting in the Philadelphia Phillies' direction. The Astros opened at -200 while the Phillies were listed at+175. However, Houston is now at -186 and Philadelphia is at+160. The best-of-seven series begins Friday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Odds as of…

Yu Darvish (17-8, 3.03) is scheduled to start for the Padres against left-hander Clayton Kershaw (12-3, 2.28). Darvish will be pitching on four days of rest and Kershaw on six. Darvish was outstanding in beating the Mets in Game 1 of their NL Wild Card Series last Friday in New York. He gave up one run and six hits in seven innings with four…

The Phillies are priced as short underdogs at the Braves for Game 2 of their NL Division Series on Wednesday, according to odds posted at sportsbooks minutes after Philadelphia's 7-6 series-opening win in Atlanta on Tuesday. Early betting lines at DraftKings have Atlanta the -125 favorite to take Game 2 behind Kyle Wright, while FanDuel offers Zack…

Who: Philadelphia Phillies vs. Atlanta Braves When: Tuesday, Oct. 11 Time: 1:07 p.m. EST Where: Truist Park (Atlanta, Georgia) Betting Odds Summary Moneyline: Phillies+168, Braves -200 Runline: Phillies+1.5 (-128), Braves -1.5 (+106) Total: Over/Under 7.5 Runs (+102/-124) Odds and lines are current from FanDuel Sportsbook at the time of writing and…

For the first time since 2016, playoff baseball will return to Queens this weekend when the New York Mets host the San Diego Padres in the Wild Card round. The Mets finished with the third-best record in all of baseball this year, but unfortunately for them, they tied with the Atlanta Braves and lost the division by losing their season series last…

The NL Wild Card Series continues on Saturday when the Philadelphia Phillies travel to take on the St. Louis Cardinals. The Phillies will look to clinch a berth in the NLDS when the game begins at 8:37 PM ET on ESPN2. Aaron Nola will start for the Phillies the Cardinals have not named their starter. The Phillies are sixth-best in MLB play with 205…

The Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves will go head-to-head in Game 1 of the NLDS on Tuesday. The Phillies went into St. Louis and stunned the Cardinals in the NL Wild Card Series. The NL Central-winning Cardinals were favored by the majority of people around the MLB world against Philadelphia. But the Phillies ultimately swept them in two…

The New York Mets will host the San Diego Padres to start the NL Wild Card Series on Friday at 8:07 PM ET, live on ESPN from Citi Field. Yu Darvish will start for the Padres and Max Scherzer is the Mets' starter in this matchup. The 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Mets pitching staff leads the majors. The Padres have a team…

The Mets avoided an embarrassing two-game sweep with a big win last night, setting us up for this Game 3 clash in Queens. Our MLB betting picks have taken a look at the matchup, and are high on this games total staying low throughout. We have Game 3 of the best-of-three NL Wild Card series between the San Diego Padres and New York Mets. New York…

CLEVELAND - Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke up the longest scoreless postseason game in major league history with a leadoff home run in the 15th inning, giving the Cleveland Guardians a 1-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday and a two-game Wild Card Series sweep. Gonzalez, who walks to the plate to the "SpongeBob SquarePants" theme song, drove a…

The San Diego Padres and New York Mets meet for Game 2 in The Big Apple! It's time to continue our MLB odds series with a Padres-Mets prediction and pick. How bout' them Friars!? Who would have guessed the Padres would smash four home runs against Max Scherzer in a playoff game? San Diego showed up for Game 1 in New York with vengeance and proved a…

Who's ready for some more playoff action? Game two of this NL Wild Card series continues as the Philadelphia Phillies will square off with the St. Louis Cardinals in the "Rome of the West". Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Phillies-Cardinals prediction and pick will be revealed. Meeting seven times throughout the course of the regular…

The Atlanta Braves were one of the breakout stories of the 2022 MLB season. The defending World Series champions looked to be losing ground to the New York Mets in the NL East for most of the season. "Nothing like Truist Park during the (pre)playoffs. 25 years since my last Braves game and my first in Atlanta ever. #Braves #Choptober" - @ Stacy…

The San Diego Padres hit up Max Scherzer for seven earned runs in a 7-1 blowout of the New York Mets on Friday night and now hold a 1-0 lead in the 2022 NL Wild Card Series. But the Mets will have the luxury of turning to another winner of multiple Cy Youngs with Jacob deGrom taking the mound in Game 2. San Diego isn't likely to be frightened after…

Clear your calendars, because for the first time since 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies will appear in a postseason game on Friday. Game 1 of the NL Wild Card series between Philadelphia and the St. Louis Cardinals will begin at 2:07 p.m. EST at Busch Stadium. Winners of the NL Central, the Cardinals yield the no. 3 seed in the NL while the Phillies…

The San Diego Padres easily defeated the Mets in New York in Game 1 of their National League Wild Card Series, shifting the odds in this series in their favor. With the new best-of-three format, the Mets, who won 101 games in the regular season, are one loss away from being eliminated from the playoffs. FanDuel has the Mets at+180 to win this…

The Philadelphia Phillies hit the road for Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals, Saturday at 8:37 PM ET. The Phillies lead the series 1-0 as they try to advance to the NLDS. Oddsmakers project the Phillies as a tight favorite (-117 moneyline odds to win) against the Cardinals (-102). The matchup on the mound for this…

The Philadelphia Phillies visit the St. Louis Cardinals for Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series on Saturday 8:37 PM ET at Busch Stadium. The Phillies have a 1-0 series lead. The Phillies are favored (-117) in an expected evenly matched game against the Cardinals (-102). The Phillies will give the ball to Aaron Nola (11-13) against the Cardinals and…

Will we have a little revenge 11 years in the making this weekend in the NL Wild Card series between the #6 Philadelphia Phillies and #3 St. Louis Cardinals? In 2011, Philadelphia won 102 games and the NL East title, led by the late, great Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Cole Hamels. And in the final series of the MLB regular season, they swept the…

This year's National League playoff field exemplifies why the postseason expanded to 12 teams. First, there are the Phillies (87-75), who under the former 10-team format would have fallen just short of a wild-card berth. Instead, they earned the No. 6 seed and returned to the postseason for the first time since 2011. The Mets, winners of 101 games…

ATLANTA, GA Ð OCTOBER 01: New York starting pitcher Max Scherzer (21) throws a pitch during the MLB game between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves on October 1st, 2022 at Truist Park in Atlanta, GA. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire) The MLB Gambling Podcast drops its NL Wild Card Series Betting Predictions show! Malcolm…

Philadelphia is back in the postseason for the first time since 2011, and we like Zach Wheeler to help them strike first in Game 1 of this NL Wild Card series on Friday night. Read more in our Phillies vs. Cardinals betting picks. The MLB Playoffs have arrived, and one of the opening day features will be the Philadelphia Phillies traveling to face…

The best month of the sports calendar is October, and a big reason why starts Friday with the newly-minted best-of-three Wild Card Series for the MLB playoffs. We've gone from a one-game, winner-take-all format to a short series hosted by the higher-seeded team. MLB (not surprisingly) made a pretty big faux pas with its new postseason format.…

The Major League Baseball playoffs begin Oct. 7 with the wild-card round. Those series are now a best-of-3 with the new playoff format, which includes the addition of one playoff spot in the form of a third Wild Card team from each league. The teams with a first round bye include division champions Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves in the…

The 2022 MLB postseason field is fully set as all the opening matchups for the Wild Card round in the National League and American League have been determined. While the Los Angeles Dodgers still don't know who they'll be facing in the NL Division Series, the options have been narrowed down to two potential opponents. The Dodgers finished as the…

TORONTO - The New York Yankees were hoping to pop champagne corks and have a blast spraying one another in celebration of their first division title in three years Monday night. They also hoped to see some baseball history they've been waiting on for almost a full week. The Toronto Blue Jays didn't cooperate. They kept Aaron Judge in the ballpark…

NEW YORK - The Cleveland Indians turned into the Cleveland Guardians this season and reverted back to division powerhouse after missing the playoffs last year. A late-season surge culminated with a division title on Sunday when the Guardians clinched the AL Central with a 10-4 win in Texas and the second-place Chicago White Sox falling 4-1 to the…

The longest postseason drought in the majors could be over soon. With the regular down to a week and a half, the Seattle Mariners have a four-game lead over the Baltimore Orioles for the third American League Wild Card. Out of the playoffs since their MLB record-tying 116-win season in 2001, Mariners added to their lead on Saturday. They rallied…

NEW YORK - The Mets finally have a wee bit of breathing room in the NL East standings with the regular season less than two weeks from over. The Mets rolled to a 9-2 win in Oakland on Friday night to hike their lead to 2 ½ games over the second-place Braves, who were whipped 9-1 in Philadelphia. The Yankees had a good night, too, by beating the Red…

MILWAUKEE - The Houston Astros clinched a playoff berth over the weekend and the AL West title will be next. The Astros' magic number is down to one, so they can wrap up the division on Monday with a victory at Tampa Bay or a Mariners' road loss to the Angels. When the Astros' clinch, they'll make it three division titles in a row and six in the…

MILWAUKEE - With the MLB regular season down to 2 ½ weeks, we've got some good pennant races going on. The Mets are still just a game up the Braves in the NL East after both clubs won on Saturday and the Blue Jays are making a run at the AL East-leading Yankees, whose lead going into Sunday is 4 ½ games after being at 6 ½ heading into the…

MILWAUKEE - The Houston Astros will be in the playoffs for the sixth year in a row. The Astros blanked the Athletics 5-0 on Friday night to become the first American League team to clinch a postseason berth. So far, the only other club guaranteed is the NL West champion Dodgers. Elsewhere, the Yankees' AL East lead was sliced to 5 ½ games by virtue…

The Los Angeles Dodgers wrongly were told on Sunday that they'd clinched a playoff berth, then MLB informed them that their magic number still was one due to a potential three-way tie for a National League Wild Card. No biggie. All that did was force the Dodgers to wait a day to become the first club to clinch. They did it Monday night by shutting…

Dethroned last season, the Los Angeles Dodgers are closing in on a ninth NL West title in 10 seasons. They beat the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night to maintain their 19-game division lead on the second-place San Diego Padres and reduce their magic number to seven. Before wrapping that up, the Dodgers probably will become the first club to…

NEW YORK - The Tampa Bay Rays won again in Boston on Tuesday night to keep the pressure on the Yankees, who were rained out and lost a half game in the American League East standings. The Yankees' lead over Tampa Bay was 15 ½ games on July 8. It's now 4 1/2 games with four weeks to go and the teams meet up again three more times this weekend at…