LOS ANGELES — After two days of four playoff games during the wild card round, Saturday gives us one more day full of baseball on Saturday to start the Division Series round in both the American League and National League.
The Dodgers will start Tarik Skubal in Game 1 of their NLDS against a potential bullpen game by the Braves, in the second game of the day, a 1 p.m. start at Dodger Stadium with temperatures expected in the triple digits.
“Hopefully everyone is drinking a lot of water and staying
hydrated,” Skubal said Friday. “It’s going to be a hot one.”
But the first game of Saturday is in Cleveland, with the Guardians facing the Chicago White Sox in a true division series. The other ALDS is also an actual division series with Drew Rasmussen and the Tampa Bay Rays hosting Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees.
Saturday ends with Robbie Ray and the San Diego Padres on the road to face likely NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski and the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park.
Fox Sports has the NL playoffs this year, with TBS televising the AL side.
After Saturday, there’s one more chance for a day with four postseason baseball games. If both National League series don’t end in sweeps, next Wednesday, October 7 will feature two NLDS Games 4 and two ALDS Games 3.
Saturday Division Series schedule
10 a.m. PT: White Sox at Guardians
ALDS Game 1: Hagen Smith vs. Parker Messick
TBS (Alex Faust, Ron Darling)
1 p.m.: Dodgers vs. Braves
NLDS Game 1: Tarik Skubal vs. bullpen game
Fox (Joe Davis, John Smoltz)
3:30 p.m. PT: Yankees at Rays
ALDS Game 1: Gerrit Cole vs. Drew Rasmussen
TBS (Brian Anderson, Jeff Francoeur)
5:30 p.m. PT: Padres at Brewers
NLDS Game 1: Robbie Ray vs. Jacob Misiorowski
FS1 (Adam Amin, Adam Wainwright, A.J. Pierzynski)
