Major League Baseball announced game times for the 2026 League Championship Series, which begin with the National League on Sunday, Oct. 11 and the AL on Monday, Oct. 12.
The Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles
Dodgers will meet in the best-of-seven NLCS for the second year in a row. The Brew Crew had MLB's best record in 2026 and hope to avenge last year's embarrassing four-game sweep, which also occurred when Milwaukee was the NL's top seed. Los Angeles won the World Series each of the past two years while the Brewers are one of five teams to never win a title, last reaching the Fall Classic in 1982.
The Tampa Bay Rays have home-field advantage in the ALCS which begins a day after the NL, facing the winner of the Cleveland Guardians-Chicago White Sox ALDS. Tampa Bay has reached the World Series twice in franchise history (2008 and 2020) and is among the other clubs that have failed to win a championship.
The ALCS and NLCS winners will face off in the World Series, which begins Friday, Oct. 23.
ALCS schedule, game times
Games 4 and 6 subject to time change if NLCS is over
- Game 1: Monday, Oct 12 – Guardians/White Sox at Rays – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 2: Tuesday, Oct. 13 – Guardians/White Sox at Rays – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 3: Thursday, Oct. 15 – Rays at Guardians/White Sox – 6 p.m. ET
- Game 4: Friday, Oct. 16 – Rays at Guardians/White Sox – 6 p.m. ET
- Game 5*: Saturday, Oct. 17 – Rays at Guardians/White Sox – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 6*: Monday, Oct. 19 – Guardians/White Sox at Rays – 5 p.m. ET
- Game 7*: Tuesday, Oct. 20 – Guardians/White Sox at Rays – 8 p.m. ET
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Dodgers vs Brewers NLCS schedule, game times
- Game 1: Sunday, Oct 11 – Dodgers at Brewers – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 2: Monday, Oct. 12 – Dodgers at Brewers – 5 p.m. ET
- Game 3: Wednesday, Oct. 14 – Brewers at Dodgers – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 4: Thursday, Oct. 15 – Brewers at Dodgers – 9 p.m. ET
- Game 5*: Friday, Oct. 16 – Brewers at Dodgers – 9 p.m. ET
- Game 6*: Sunday, Oct. 18 – Dodgers at Brewers – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 7*: Monday, Oct. 19 – Dodgers at Brewers – 8 p.m. ET
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: MLB reveals postseason game times for ALCS and NLCS
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