elected free agency<\/a> after being designated for assignment, clearing waivers, and being outrighted to Triple-A a week-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\nPhiladelphia Phillies (0-1) vs Atlanta Braves (1-0)<\/p>\n
This game will be available on NBC and Peacock at 2pm ET. The Phillies are facing elimination if they lose the game. There is no better time to hand the ball to your ace than right now and that\u2019s exactly what they are doing as they send lefty Cristopher Sanchez to the mound. He went 18-7 this season with a 2.91 ERA in 207.0 innings where he struck out 231 batters. Atlanta is turning things over to former Reds starter Tyler Mahle. In his 27 starts this season he went 7-10 with a 3.99 ERA while throwing 149.0 innings and striking out 137 batters.<\/p>\n
Chicago White Sox (1-0) vs Houston Astros (0-1)<\/p>\n
This game is only available on Peacock and is scheduled to begin at 5pm ET. The home crowd wasn\u2019t forgiving yesterday in Houston and the players were bothered by it. Of course that could be what happens when you are an 81-81 team and fall behind immediately.<\/p>\n
The Astros have to win this one to stay alive. They will be going with Hunter Brown as their starter. He went 6-4 in his 20 starts this season, posting a 3.19 ERA in 107.1 innings pitched while striking out 124. Chicago is going to counter by sending Sean Burke to the mound. He made 27 starts and five relief appearances for the White Sox this season, going 11-7 with a 3.34 ERA in 172.1 innings where he struck out 185 batters.<\/p>\n
Boston Red Sox (0-1) vs New York Yankees (1-0)<\/p>\n
This game will be available on both NBC and Peacock at 8pm ET. Despite the final score being 9-0 in favor of the home team last night, this game was close for much of it. The Yankees led 2-0 entering the bottom of the 7th inning before scoring twice in the frame and then adding five runs in the 8th to put the game out of reach behind another outstanding start from AL Cy Young favorite Cam Schlittler.<\/p>\n
Boston will be sending out former Reds pitcher Sonny Gray with their season on the line. The 36-year-old went 18-5 this season in his 29 starts. He threw 169.0 innings with a 2.72 ERA and he struck out 149 batters. New York will counter with lefty Max Fried. He went 5-5 in 20 starts this season, posting a 2.80 ERA in his 112.2 innings where he racked up 104 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Chicago Cubs (0-1) vs San Diego Padres (1-0)<\/p>\n
The game will only be available on Peacock tonight, with the first pitch scheduled for 10pm ET. San Diego dominated game one from start to finish. Michael King didn\u2019t give up a hit until the 7th inning. The Padres scored two runs in the 1st to take the lead and it was 7-0 before Chicago even had a hit in the game.<\/p>\n
The Cubs will be starting former Red Kevin Gausman tonight. Acquired at the trade deadline from Toronto, Gausman has made 32 starts this season with a 4.51 ERA to go with his 9-12 record. Over his 177.2 innings he had 184 strikeouts between the two teams. The Padres are turning to Nick Pivetta tonight. He missed much of the year after an injury in mid-April and didn\u2019t return until September. Pivetta made eight starts this year with a 2.86 ERA in just 34.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday saw the 2026 MLB Playoffs get underway with four games in the wild card round. The first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,536],"class_list":["post-818695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117364461667495322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818695","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=818695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}