The tenth month is upon us, and the 2025 MLB playoffs are commencing. The group of twelve teams is finalized, and the postseason action initiated on Tuesday featuring four Wild Card Series Games: Guardians versus Tigers, Cubs versus Padres, Yankees versus Red Sox, and Dodgers versus Reds. The Dodgers have emerged as the initial team to advance after decisively winning against the Reds in all games, thus moving forward to encounter the Phillies. The Blue Jays, Mariners, Brewers, and Phillies secured byes and will commence their postseason journey on Saturday in the League Division Series.
For the first instance under the existing playoff framework, we are poised to witness a minimum of three Game 3s on Thursday. Cleveland triumphed over Detroit with a score of 6-1 on Wednesday, thereby compelling a decisive game between the AL Central adversaries. The Padres subsequently mirrored this outcome against the Cubs with a 3-0 victory, while the Yankees outperformed the Red Sox with a score of 4-3, propelling their AL East confrontation into Game 3 as well.
The best-of-three Wild Card Series are scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday, with the LDS round set to begin on Saturday.
The following is an overview of the complete 2025 MLB playoff structure.
2025 MLB playoff bracket
Keytron Jordan, CBS Sports
2025 MLB playoff schedule, TV channel
All games on ESPN, ABC, Fox and FS1 are streaming on fubo (Try for free). All times Eastern.
* = if needed
Wild Card Series
Tuesday, Sept. 30
AL Wild Card Series Game 1: Tigers 2, Guardians 1 (Detroit leads 1-0)
NL Wild Card Series Game 1: Cubs 3, Padres 1 (Chicago leads 1-0)
AL Wild Card Series Game 1: Red Sox 3, Yankees 1 (Boston leads 1-0)
NL Wild Card Series Game 1: Dodgers 10, Reds 5 (L.A. leads 1-0)
Wednesday, Oct. 1
AL Wild Card Series Game 2: Guardians 6, Tigers 1 (Series tied 1-1)
NL Wild Card Series Game 2: Padres 3, Cubs 0 (Series tied 1-1)
AL Wild Card Series Game 2: Yankees 4, Red Sox 3 (Series tied 1-1)
NL Wild Card Series Game 2: Dodgers 8, Reds 4 (L.A. advances)
Thursday, Oct. 2
AL Wild Card Series Game 3: Guardians vs. Tigers, 3:08 p.m. | ABC/fubo
NL Wild Card Series Game 3: Cubs vs. Padres, 5:08 p.m. | ESPN/fubo
AL Wild Card Series Game 3: Yankees vs. Red Sox, 8:08 p.m. | ESPN/fubo
Division Series
Saturday, Oct. 4
ALDS Game 1: Blue Jays vs. Yankees/Red Sox, 1:08 or 4:08 p.m. | Fox or FS1/fubo
NLDS Game 1: Brewers vs. Cubs/Padres, 2:08 or 9:08 p.m. | TBS
NLDS Game 1: Phillies vs. Dodgers, 6:08 or 6:38 p.m. | TBS
ALDS Game 1: Mariners vs. Guardians/Tigers, 4:08 or 8:38 p.m. | FS1 or Fox/fubo
Sunday, Oct. 5
ALDS Game 2: Blue Jays vs. Yankees/Red Sox, 4:08 p.m. | FS1/fubo
ALDS Game 2: Mariners vs. Guardians/Tigers, 8:03 p.m. | FS1/fubo
Monday, Oct. 6
NLDS Game 2: Phillies vs. Dodgers, TBD
NLDS Game 2: Brewers vs. Cubs/Padres, TBD
Tuesday, Oct. 7
ALDS Game 3: TBD vs. Blue Jays, TBD
ALDS Game 3: TBD vs. Mariners, TBD
Wednesday, Oct. 8
NLDS Game 3: TBD vs. Brewers, TBD
NLDS Game 3: Dodgers vs. Phillies, TBD
ALDS Game 4*: TBD vs. Blue Jays, TBD
ALDS Game 4*: TBD vs. Mariners, TBD
Thursday, Oct. 9
NLDS Game 4*: TBD vs. Brewers, TBD
NLDS Game 4*: Dodgers vs. Phillies, TBD
Friday, Oct. 10
ALDS Game 5*: Blue Jays vs. TBD, TBD
ALDS Game 5*: Mariners vs. TBD, TBD
Saturday, Oct. 11
NLDS Game 5*: Phillies vs. Dodgers, TBD
NLDS Game 5*: Brewers vs. TBD, TBD
Championship Series
Sunday, Oct. 12
ALCS Game 1
Monday, Oct. 13
NLCS Game 1
ALCS Game 2
Tuesday, Oct. 14
NLCS Game 2
Wednesday, Oct. 15
ALCS Game 3
Thursday, Oct. 16
NLCS Game 3
ALCS Game 4
Friday, Oct. 17
NLCS Game 4
ALCS Game 5*
Saturday, Oct. 18
NLCS Game 5*
Sunday, Oct. 19
ALCS Game 6*
Monday, Oct. 20
NLCS Game 6*
ALCS Game 7*
Tuesday, Oct. 21
NLCS Game 7*
World Series
Friday, Oct. 24
World Series Game 1
Saturday, Oct. 25
World Series Game 2
Monday, Oct. 27
World Series Game 3
Tuesday, Oct. 28
World Series Game 4
Wednesday, Oct. 29
World Series Game 5*
Friday, Oct. 31
World Series Game 6*
Saturday, Nov. 1
World Series Game 7*
