2025 Major League Baseball postseason

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2025 Major League Baseball postseason
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Tournament details
DatesSeptember 30 – November 1, 2025 [a]
Teams12
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The 2025 Major League Baseball postseason will be the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2025 season. The winners of the Wild Card Series will face the two best division winners (seeds) in each league in the Division Series, and the victors will advance to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners who will play against each other in the 2025 World Series. The postseason will begin on September 30. [1] [2]

Contents

In the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays were the first team to clinch a postseason berth, which is their sixth in the last eleven years.

In the National League, the first team to clinch a postseason berth were the Milwaukee Brewers, who clinched their seventh postseason berth in the last eight years (2018–2021, 2023–2025). Next were the Philadelphia Phillies, who returned for the fourth year in a row (2022–2025). The Chicago Cubs clinched their first postseason appearance since 2020, their sixth appearance in the last eleven years (2015–2018, 2020, 2025), and their first in a full 162-game season since 2018. The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched a postseason berth for the thirteenth consecutive time (2013–2025), tying the New York Yankees for the second longest postseason appearance streak in MLB history (the Yankees previously made thirteen straight appearances from 1995 to 2007). The Dodgers’ thirteen straight appearances remains the longest active playoff streak in major North American professional sports. [3]

Teams

As of September22, 2025, five teams have qualified for the playoffs. The 3 teams that are division winners in each league and the top 3 non-division winners (Wild cards) will qualify for the playoffs. The top 2 division winners receive first round byes to the ALDS or NLDS while the other teams have to play in the Wild Card round.

The following teams qualified for the postseason:

American League

National League

Broadcasting

Television coverage

Coverage of the four Wild Card Series will be produced by ESPN (including ABC). [11]

TNT Sports (TBS and TruTV) will have coverage of the National League Division Series and National League Championship Series.

Both the American League Division Series and American League Championship Series will be on Fox Sports (Fox and FS1).

The World Series will air on the Fox broadcast network for the 26th consecutive year.

Spanish language broadcasts will be available on ESPN Deportes for ESPN's games, Fox Deportes for Fox Sports' games, and MLB Network for TNT Sports' games.

Streaming

All of TNT Sports' games will be available on HBO Max.

All of Fox Sports' games will be available on Fox One.

All ESPN Produced games (including games on ABC) will be available on ESPN DTC.

Additionally, ESPN/ABC, TNT Sports' and Fox Sports' games will be streamed on their respective apps.

Radio

ESPN Radio will air the entire Major League Baseball postseason.

Notes

  1. ↑ November 1 would be the date of a World Series Game 7; the soonest the postseason could end would be on October 28, the date of a World Series Game 4.

References

  1. ↑ "2025 Postseason schedule announced". MLB.com. August 12, 2025. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  2. ↑ Anderson, R.J. (August 12, 2025). "2025 MLB playoff schedule: Dates set for full postseason, including World Series start". CBS Sport. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  3. ↑ "MLB playoff tracker 2025: Clinching scenarios, bracket, schedule". ESPN.com. September 14, 2025. Retrieved September 14, 2025.
  4. ↑ Matheson, Keegan (September 21, 2025). "Blue Jays headed back to postseason with sights set on East crown". MLB.com. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  5. ↑ McCalvy, Adam (September 13, 2025). "MLB-best Crew first to punch ticket to postseason". MLB.com. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
  6. ↑ McCalvy, Adam (September 21, 2025). "Brew up a clinch! Crew wins 3rd straight NL Central title". MLB.com. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  7. ↑ Casella, Paul (September 14, 2025). "Phillies secure playoff spot but miss out on clinching NL East at home". MLB.com. Retrieved September 14, 2025.
  8. ↑ Zolecki, Todd (September 15, 2025). "Clutch moments from Harper, Realmuto clinch Phillies' 2nd consecutive NL East title". MLB.com. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  9. ↑ Aldrich, Will (September 17, 2025). "Cubs secure first trip to postseason since 2020". MLB.com. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  10. ↑ Chen, Sonja (September 19, 2025). "They're back! Dodgers headed to 13th straight postseason". MLB.com. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  11. ↑ Giannotto, Mark (August 12, 2024). "MLB playoffs schedule: Dates for 2025 World Series, every AL and NL postseason round". USA Today. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
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