MLB playoff picture 2026: Clinching scenarios, bracket, schedule

From current playoff matchups to the postseason schedule, we have everything you need to know.

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2026 MLB ABS challenge system tracker: Team, player rankings

The ABS challenge system leaderboard ranks batters, catchers, teams and umpires throughout the MLB season.

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Yankees to meet Red Sox in playoffs for seventh time

The Yankees and Red Sox both talked up the clubs' long-standing rivalry with mutual respect ahead of their best-of-three wild-card series.

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MLB playoffs 2026: Ranking teams by World Series pressure

For some teams this October, a victory would be even sweeter -- and a defeat all the more painful.

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MLB 2026 playoff intel: Bold predictions, dangerous teams, more

Which wild cards could win it all? Are the Yankees cooked without Judge? Here's what those in the sport think could decide October.

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MLB Power Rankings Week 26: Where teams stand entering playoffs

The final days of the 2026 regular season are upon us -- and a number of races are coming down to the wire.

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Full final 2026 regular-season grades for all 30 MLB teams

Whether your team is headed to October or packing its bags for the offseason, how did 2026 measure up to expectations?

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Red Sox beat Cubs 2-0 to sweep doubleheader after setting Wild Card Series matchup with Yankees

— Wilyer Abreu hit a two-run double in the eighth inning, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 Friday night to sweep a doubleheader.

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