The Major League Baseball playoffs open with the best-of-three Wild Card Series, which features the New York Yankees against the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers starting their title defense against the Cincinnati Reds .

The first round is a quadruple header, three-game series — Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at the home of the higher-seeded team, with the winners advancing to face the top two seeds from each league.

Everything starts Tuesday and will be on ESPN.

American League

No. 6 Detroit Tigers at No. 3 Cleveland Guardians

Winner plays Seattle

Schedule and projected starters

Game 1 : Detroit (Tarik Skubal) at Cleveland (Gavin Williams), 11:08 a.m. Tuesday, ESPN

Game 2 : Detroit (Jack Flaherty) vs. Cleveland (Tanner Bibee), 11:08 a.m. Wednesday, ESPN

Game 3 i

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