While the Dodgers don’t play until Tuesday, the MLB playoffs will start without them this weekend. A quartet of best-of-three wild card series begins on Friday, providing at least two and likely three la dodgers mlb jersey outlet days of baseball to entertain us through the interim.
From the Dodgers’ perspective, the series that matters most is the Mets hosting the Padres, with the winner of that No. 4 vs. No. 5 matchup advancing to face the Dodgers in the Division Series. It’s not a perfect analogy, but New York this year most closely represents Los Angeles last year, a teamKeds with triple-digit wins who lost their division by a raNolan Arenado zor-thin margin, forced to do a little extra before getting into the divisional round.
Mets-Padres occupies the latest time slot among all four wild card series on Friday, with Game 1 starting at 5:07 p.m. PT, 8:07 p.m. at Citi Field. A series of wonderful pitching matchups begins with a pair of old friends starting on the mound in the series opener. Max Scherzer starts for the Mets, with Yu Darvish going for the Padres.
All three games of Mets vs. Padres will be televised by ESPN, with the usual ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ crew of Karl Ravech, David Cone, and Eduardo Perez on the call plus reporter Buster Olney. The ESPN family of networks has television rights to the wild card round as part of their contract, with games this weekend set for ESPN, ESPN2, and even ABC.
The wild card round is a best-of-three affair, with la dodgers mlb jersey discount the entire series in the home park of the higher seed. For the Padres, Phillies, Rays, or Mariners to earn a playoff game at hom la dodgers mlb jersey leak e, they’ll need to win their wild card series on the road first.
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Here is the schedule for Friday.
Rays at Guardians
Game 1, 9:07 a.m. PT
Shane McClanahan vs. Shane Bieber
TV: ESPN (Jon Sciambi, Doug Glanville, Jesse Rogers)
Streaming: Watch ESPN
Phillies at Cardinals
Game 1, 11:07 a.m. PT
Zach Wheeler vs. José Quintana
TV: ABC (Michael la dodgers mlb jersey red Kay, Alex Rodriguez, Alden Gonzalez)
Streaming: Watch ESPN
Mariners at Blue Jays
Game 1, 1:07 p.m. PT
Diego Castillo vs. Alek Ma la dodgers mlb jersey outfit noah
TV: ESPN (Dave Fleming, JeMLB Hatsssica Mendoza, Tim Kurkjian, Coley Harvey)
Streaming: Watch ESPN
Padres at Mets
Game 1, 5:07 p.m. PT
Yu Darvish vs. Max Scherzer
TV: ESPN (Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez, Buster Olney)
Streaming: Watch ESPN
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