TEst 4

This time, the loser goes home. Wrigley will be rocking after the Cubs' loss on Monday in the NL Central tiebreaker. Here's why Chicago has the edge -- and how Colorado can win.

From the obvious to the obscure, each World Series contender has several key advantages over the others.

Welcome to October, when it takes talent and some postseason magic to win it all. We break down every roster to see who has the right Fall Classic formula.

The Brewers and Dodgers clearly have a leg up after Monday's wins, but are the Rockies or Cubs set up better to win Tuesday's wild-card game?

Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland will start Tuesday's National League wild-card game against the Chicago Cubs, manager Bud Black announced Monday.

The Los Angeles Dodgers topped the Colorado Rockies 5-2 to earn a record sixth consecutive NL West title in a tiebreaker game.

Jon Lester will start against the Rockies and first baseman Anthony Rizzo calls for "all hands on deck" as the Cubs lost out on the NL Central division title and look ahead to Tuesday's wild-card game.

American baseball fans surveyed by The Seton Hall Sports Poll would much prefer a multigame series in the wild-card round instead of a single-elimination game.

The Diamondbacks and hitting coach Dave Magadan have mutually agreed to part ways after Arizona hit just .235 as a team this season.

The Pirates have fired hitting coach Jeff Branson and assistant hitting coach Jeff Livesey.

Angels star Shohei Ohtani has had his Tommy John surgery, and while the team says he'll hit in 2019, he won't pitch again until 2020.

The Brewers are starting Jhoulys Chacin against the Cubs and Jose Quintana in the tiebreaker game for the NL Central.

How will the tiebreakers impact the rest of the playoffs? Who will be the breakout star? Who faces the most pressure? And who will win it all?

Baseball's postseason starts with a bang with an unprecedented doubleheader. Here's what you need to know on Brewers-Cubs and Rockies-Dodgers.

Thanks to an 11-8 head-to-head record against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Chicago Cubs will get to host Game No. 20 between the teams on Monday afternoon to decide the National League Central division winner.

Joe Mauer took center stage in Minnesota's 5-4, season-ending win over the White Sox. In what may have been his final game for his hometown Twins, the former MVP doubled and briefly served as catcher.

The Dodgers will start their precocious rookie, Walker Buehler, in Monday's tiebreaker with the Rockies. With the National League West title on the line, Colorado counters with German Marquez.

Two divisional tiebreaker games will be played Monday after the Cubs, Brewers, Dodgers and Rockies all won Sunday, leaving the NL Central and West both deadlocked after 162 games.

Charlie Blackmon completed a cycle and went 4-for-5 as the Rockies beat the Nationals and set themselves up for Game 163 on Monday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

After 19 seasons, manager Mike Scioscia says he won't be back with the Angels next year.