September 29, 2020 No debate: Judge, Yankees pound Bieber, Indians in opener Aaron Judge smashed a tone-setting, two-run homer on Shane Bieber's fourth pitch, Gerrit Cole struck out 13 and the New York Yankees opened the AL playoffs with a resounding 12-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.
September 29, 2020 Giolito dazzles, Abreu slugs White Sox past A's in opener Lucas Giolito dazzled in his postseason debut, stymieing the Oakland Athletics through six perfect innings and sending the Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 victory in the opener of their best-of-three wild-card series Tuesday.
September 29, 2020 Astros win 4-1 in Game 1; Twins' record losing streak at 17 Jose Altuve drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning for Houston after a two-out error by shortstop Jorge Polanco, and the Astros beat Minnesota 4-1 Tuesday to open their AL playoff series and stretch the Twins' all-time record postseason losing streak to 17 games.
September 28, 2020 Yankees take on Indians in postseason and will have to contend with midges again The New York Yankees will not only have to deal with the upstart Cleveland Indians in the American League Wild Card Series but they will face off again against an old foe – midges.
September 28, 2020 2020 NL Wild Card Series preview, schedule and times The National League side of the MLB Postseason bracket is set as the beginning of the end of the shortened 2020 season is about to take place.
September 28, 2020 2020 AL Wild Card Series preview, schedule and times For the first in MLB history, there are eight teams in the playoffs for the AL side.
September 27, 2020 Cardinals beat Brewers, both clinch postseason berths Harrison Bader tripled and homered to help the St. Louis Cardinals clinch a postseason berth on the final day of the regular season with a 5-2 win over Milwaukee, and the Brewers also earned a playoff spot Sunday via help on the West Coast moments later.
September 26, 2020 Astros clinch final AL playoff spot despite loss to Rangers Ryan Pressly had no interest in waiting to see if the Astros would get the help they needed to clinch the last spot in the expanded American League playoffs after the Houston reliever couldn’t finish it himself when he was a strike away.
September 24, 2020 Blue Jays clinch 1st playoff spot since 2016, beat Yanks 4-1 Hyun Jin Ryu pitched seven shutout innings and the Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first postseason spot since 2016, beating the Yankees 4-1 Thursday night and further damaging New York's chances of hosting a first-round playoff series.
September 24, 2020 MLB teams find creative ways to stay energized without fans The absence of fans didn't stop Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto from receiving an ovation after hitting a homer to put his team ahead for good.