The World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 on Wednesday to advance in the Major League Baseball playoffs as the New York Yankees stayed alive with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

The Cleveland Guardians and San Diego Padres also fended off elimination in their best-of-three wild card series, Cleveland downing the Detroit Tigers 6-1 and the Padres topping the Chicago Cubs 3-0.

Mookie Betts had four hits and drove in three runs for the Dodgers, who overcame three fielding errors to win their series 2-0 and line up a best-of-five National League division series with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto scattered four hits over six-plus innings, rebounding after the Reds put up two runs in the first inning with the aid

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