2026 Major League Baseball postseason

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The 2026 Major League Baseball postseason was a playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2026 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 then played each other in the 2026 World Series. The postseason began on September 29. In the American League, the Tampa Bay Rays returned to the postseason for the sixth time in the last eight years (2019–2023, 2026). Joining them were the New York Yankees, who clinched their third consecutive playoff berth (2024–2026) and the tenth in the last twelve years (2015, 2017–2022, 2024–2026), as well as the Boston Red Sox, who returned for the second consecutive season (2025–2026) and sixth in the last eleven years (2016–2018, 2021, 2025–2026). The Chicago White Sox clinched their third postseason berth in seven years (2020–2021). The Cleveland Guardians clinched...

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