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 if necessary:

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