The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their return to the NLCS in dramatic fashion on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
The Dodgers won in the 11th inning on an errant throw by Philadelphia Phillies reliever Orion Kerkering that allowed the game-winning run to score. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles now awaits either the Milwaukee Brewers or Chicago Cubs in the NLCS. Milwaukee currently owns a 2-1 series lead over its National League Central rival. <\/p>\n
Over in the American League, the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners play Game 5 on Friday night to determine which team faces the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALCS.<\/p>\n
Updated MLB Playoff Schedule<\/p>\n
Game 5: Detroit at Seattle (8:08 p.m. ET, Fox)<\/p>\n
Game 5 (if necessary): Chicago at Milwaukee (8:08 p.m. ET, TBS)<\/p>\n
The Dodgers are back in the NLCS for the second straight year and the fourth time in six years. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles outlasted the Phillies over 11 innings in Thursday’s Game 4 to advance into the next round. <\/p>\n
The Dodgers now have some time to reset their rotation ahead of NLCS Game 1 on Monday night. <\/p>\n
Shohei Ohtani, who would have started NLDS Game 5 in Philadelphia on Saturday, is the likely candidate to begin the NLCS for the Dodgers. <\/p>\n
The Dodgers will have Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow available on regular rest for the first four games of the NLCS.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee has a chance to finish off its series with the Cubs on Thursday night at Wrigley Field. <\/p>\n
The Brewers threw Freddy Peralta in NLDS Game 4, so he would likely pitch NLCS Game 2 on full rest. <\/p>\n
If the Cubs win again at home, they will head back to Milwaukee for Game 5 on Saturday. <\/p>\n
The Dodgers would travel to Milwaukee for Games 1 and 2 if the Brewers close out the Cubs. Los Angeles would be at home for the Games 1 and 2 if the Cubs complete the series comeback.<\/p>\n
The ALCS matchup will be set on Friday night. The Tigers will put Tarik Skubal up against George Kirby and the Mariners in a rematch of the ALDS Game 1 meeting that went 11 innings. <\/p>\n
Toronto will host whichever team advances from Friday night in Games 1 and 2 of the ALCS. The ALCS will start on Sunday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their return to the NLCS in dramatic fashion on Thursday night. The Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-201567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}