2025 Major League Baseball postseason

2025 Major League Baseball postseason

Tournament details
Dates	September 30 – November 1, 2025 [a]
Teams	12
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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 faced the two best division winners (seeds) in each league in the Division Series, and the victors advanced to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners who played each other in the 2025 World Series. The postseason will begin on September 30. ^{[1] [2]}

Teams

As of August30, 2025, no 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 byes to the ALDS or NLDS while the other teams have to play in the wildcard round.

Broadcasting

Television coverage

Coverage of the four Wild Card Series will be produced by ESPN. ^[3]

TBS 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.

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 TBS's games.

Streaming

TBS's games will be available on the streaming service Max's new Bleacher Report Sports Add-on tier. ESPN, TBS and Fox's 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. 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.

External links

• Major League Baseball Standings and Expanded Standings – 2025