After three days of exciting wild-card action, including three elimination Game 3s, the MLB Division Series begins Saturday with four matchups.<\/p>\n
The No. 1 NL seed Brewers smacked the Cubs after a hot streak early on. Now, it’s on to the top-AL-seeded Blue Jays hosting the Yankees, who just knocked off the Red Sox behind a stellar performance from rookie Cam Schlittler<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The 2024 World Series champion Dodgers were the only team to sweep<\/a> (the Reds) in the wild-card round, and they’ll take on the Phillies in the penultimate game of the day. Lastly, the AL West champion Mariners host the Tigers, who vanquished the Guardians<\/a> in their wild-card series to salvage an epic end-of-season collapse.<\/p>\n Brewers smack Cubs 9-3 after hot start<\/p>\n The No. 1 seed in the National League sure looked like it Saturday, with the Milwaukee Brewers crushing the Chicago Cubs 9-3 after a red-hot first and second inning.<\/p>\n Though Cubs first baseman Michael Busch led the game off with a solo homer, it didn\u2019t take long for the Brewers to pull to an insurmountable lead. The Brewers raced to a 6-1 lead after the first inning with five RBI doubles or singles, and grew that lead to 9-1 in the second.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner added solo home runs of their own in the sixth and eighth innings, respectively. But it was far too little and too late to undo the damage of Milwaukee’s opening innings. It didn’t help that Brewers starter Freddy Peralta had a stellar game of his own, with nine strikeouts in a 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n Milwaukee ended the game with a whopping 13 hits, and eight RBI. Three of those RBI came from left fielder Jackson Chourio, who broke records but was pulled from the game after the second inning with hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n NLDS Game 1: Cubs at Brewers, 2:08 p.m. ET, TBS MLB divisional round live blog<\/p>\n Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from Day 1 of the division series:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three days of exciting wild-card action, including three elimination Game 3s, the MLB Division Series begins Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,377,136,20455,161,39,753,36,3875,2328,2304,620,37,4,52012,2305,2303,33,40,89,536,26039,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-362160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-cam-schlittler","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-freddy-peralta","15":"tag-ian-happ","16":"tag-jackson-chourio","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","19":"tag-mariners","20":"tag-michael-busch","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-mlb-division-series","23":"tag-mlb-playoffs","24":"tag-mlb-postseason","25":"tag-nico-hoerner","26":"tag-phillies","27":"tag-red-sox","28":"tag-reds","29":"tag-stellar-performance","30":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115318059462633514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
ALDS Game 1: Yankees at Blue Jays, 4:08 p.m. ET, FS1
NLDS Game 1: Dodgers at Phillies, 6:38 p.m. ET, TBS
ALDS Game 1: Tigers at Mariners, 8:38 p.m. ET, FS1<\/p>\n