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The 2024 Major League Baseball Playoffs begin on Tuesday, October 1 and continue into early November. The Los Angeles Dodgers have been the favorite to win the 2024 World Series since the season began and they begin the 2024 MLB Playoffs as the favorite in World Series odds. The Dodgers are the top seed in the National League and will have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. The New York Yankees are the top seed in the American League and they will have home field advantage throughout the American League Playoffs. The Yankees begin the playoffs as the second choice in baseball betting odds to win the World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies are the third choice in baseball odds, followed by the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres. All other teams are listed at double-digit odds including the Cleveland Guardians and Milwaukee Brewers who won their respective divisions and competed for the best record in the league with the Dodgers and Yankees.
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The 2024 MLB Playoffs start on October 1, 2024 with Wild Card Series action. The top two division winners in each league, the Dodgers and Yankees will have a bye into the divisional round, while the other eight teams will meet in Wild Card Series action that are best-of-three series. The winners of the Wild Card Series will then advance to face the top seeds in the Division Series which are best-of-five series in each league with the winners advancing to the League Championship Series which is a best-of-seven. Those two winners will meet in the 2024 World Series, which is also a best-of-seven series.
The New York Yankees won the American League East and were the first team in the American League to clinch a playoff berth in 2024. The Yankees are in the playoffs for the seventh time in the last eight years. The Cleveland Guardians are in the playoffs for the seventh time in the last 12 years after winning the American League Central. The Houston Astros are in the playoffs for the ninth time in the last 10 years after winning the American League West. The Baltimore Orioles are in the playoffs for the second straight season, this time as a Wild Card team. The Detroit Tigers ended the longest playoff drought, making the playoffs for the first time since 2014 and the Kansas City Royals are in the playoffs for the first time since 2015.
In the National League, the Milwaukee Brewers were the first team to clinch a playoff berth as they won the National League Central. The Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League West and are in the playoffs for the 12th straight season, the longest current streak in any major professional sport. The Philadelphia Phillies won the National League East and are in the playoff for the third straight season. The San Diego Padres are in the playoffs for the third time in the past four seasons. The Atlanta Braves, New York Mets and Arizona Diamondbacks were competing for the last two playoff spots.
The 2024 MLB Playoffs will be shown on a variety of networks. ESPN and ABC will have coverage of the four Wild Card Series. FOX has coverage of the National League Division Series and the National League Championship Series. TBS and TruTV have coverage of the League Division Series and American League Championship Series, while the World Series will be shown on FOX for the 25th straight season. Spanish language broadcasts will be available on ESPN Deportes for the games on ESPN, while FOX Deportes will have the Spanish language broadcast for FOX Sports games, and Univision, UniMás or TUDN will provide Spanish language broadcasts for TBS games. Univision and TUDN will have Game 1 of the World Series, making it the first time a World Series game will be air on broadcast television in Spanish. All of the playoff games will also be available by way of streaming on the app for each network. Radio coverage of the 2024 World Series will be on ESPN Radio.
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