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In the MLB this week, the best-of-three Wild Card round of the playoffs happened. There were 4 series. In  the American League, the 6 seed Detroit Tigers beat the 3 seed Cleveland Guardians, so Detroit will play 2 seed Seattle Mariners in the ALDS (American League Divisional Series). The 4 seed New York Yankees beat the 5 seed Boston Red Sox, so New York will play the 1 seed Toronto Blue Jays in the other ALDS. In the National Leauge, the 3 seed Los Angeles Dodgers beat the 6 seed Cincinnati Reds, so Los Angeles will play the 2 seed Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS (National League Divisional Series). This was the only series that did not go to a deciding third game. Also, the 4 seed Chicago Cubs beat the 5 seed San Diego Padres, so Chicago will play 1 seed Milwaukee Brewers in the other NLDS.

In the Detroit and Cleveland series, Detroit won Game 1 (2-1),  with Tarik Skubal pitching an amazing 14 strikeouts. Cleveland won game 2 (6-1), and Detroit won Game 3 (6-3), to win the series. They will now play the 2 Seattle Mariners .

In the  New York versus Boston series, Boston won Game 1 (3-1), with Garrett Crochet pitching an outstanding 117 pitches and 11 strikeouts.  117 pitches is Crochet's career record for most pitches in a game. New York then won games 2 (4-3) and 3 (4-0) to win the series. They will now play the Toronto Blue Jays.

In the Los Angeles versus Cincinatti series, Los Angeles won both games 1 (10-5) and 2 (8-4) with dominant pitching by Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Los Angeles will now play the Philadelphia Phillies.

In the Chicago versus San Diego series,  Chicago won Game 1 (3-1), and San Diego won Game 2 (3-0). Then it came down to a deciding Game 3. This was a particularly good game. Dansby Swanson, who used to play for the Braves, had many highlight plays at shortstop. In the 9th inning, San Diego was down 3-0, until Manny Machado hit a solo home run for the Padres. Down 3-1 with 2 outs and runners on first and second base,  The Padres had a chance to take the lead in the top of the 9th inning, but the ball was hit just not hard enough, and Pete Crow-Armstrong cought the ball in center field to end the game and the series. Chicago will now play the Milwaukee Brewers. 

We will now have some exciting best-of-five MLB divisional playoff series to watch.

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