mlb playoffs 2013
The Los Angeles Dodgers, on the brink of elimination, will start Zack Greinke in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday afternoon, with Joe Kelly starting for St. Louis as they seek to make their second World Series appearance in three years.
The Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers will try to break a 1-1 deadlock on Tuesday in Game 3 of their action-packed American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.
Rookie St. Louis Cardinal Michael Wacha, who threw a no-hitter through 7 and 1/3 innings in his playoff debut in the National League Division Series, goes up against Cy Young candidate Clayton Kershaw, who has 1-0 with an ERA of 0.69 in two starts, in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series Saturday afternoon.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals kick off their National League Championship Series Friday night, with Los Angeles looking to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1988 and the Cardinals on a quest for their second title in three years.
Former MVP and Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers will have a rematch with Oakland A's rookie Sonny Gray, who out-dueled the veteran in Game 2, but now face off in a winner-take-all Game 5 American League Division Series Thursday night.
The Boston Red Sox successfully advanced to the American League Championship series for the first time since 2008. But unlike the overwhelming big bats they had in previous postseason campaigns, the Red Sox leaned on their speedy and gritty unit led by Shane Victorino.
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send 23-year-old rookie Gerrit Cole in a must-win elimination game and will face Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals in Wednesday's Game 5 of the National League Division Series.
Tampa Bay Rays Jose Lobaton came off the bench and blasted a walkoff solo homerun off Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara to extend the American League Division Series to Game 4. Jake Peavy goes to the mound for the REd Sox against the Rays Jeremy Hellickson Tuesday night.
The Oakland Athletics need just a win to advance to the American League Championship Series, but the Detroit Tigers have other plans on Tuesday's Game 4 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.
Michael Wacha kept the St. Louis Cardinals' season alive taking a no-hitter into the eighth inning in the Cardinals 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pittsburgh Pirates will try to advance to the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Monday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Locked in a 1-1 series stalemate, the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics are expected to go all out in perhaps the most pivotal game of the best-of-five American League Division Series on Monday at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.
Both the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers are sending a pair of rookies, South Korean Hyun-Jin Ryu and Colombian Julio Teheran, as both team trying to a game lead with the National League Division Series tied 1-1.
The St, Louis Cardinals travel to Pittsburgh's raucous crowd to face Francisco Liriano and the Pirates in Game 3 of their National League Division Series.
The Boston Red Sox, coming off a sensational 12-2 win in Friday's series opener, will try to book a commanding 2-0 series lead against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday at Fenway Park.
