The Chicago Cubs defeated the San Diego Padres 3-1 in their winner-take-all Wild Card series finale. It’s the first time the team has won a postseason series since 2017. Chicago Tribune columnist Paul ...

Baseball fans couldn’t get enough Wild Card Series action last week. The four series in the opening round of MLB’s postseason set viewership records and saw huge spikes in interest among younger ...

In the first three years of the expanded MLB playoff format, 10 of the 12 series in the Wild Card Round ended in sweeps. This year, baseball fans were treated to three win-or-go-home Game 3s to kick ...

ESPN set viewership records during baseball’s Wild Card Series, fueled by a significant spike in watchers from young demographics. The network announced Monday that Game 3 of the Boston-New York ...

ESPN’s final year with Major League Baseball’s wild-card round was a historic one. The network announced Monday that the wild-card round of the playoffs last week averaged 4.6 million viewers. That’s ...

The Cleveland Guardians ended the Detroit Tigers’ season a year ago, then pulled off an historic comeback in this year’s pennant chase to win the American League Central title. The Tigers decided ...