Game Recap

The Cardinals take a 3-1 series lead over the LA Dodgers with a 4-2 win. Matt Holliday lead the way with a 2-run HR and the Cardinals bullpen 3.2 innings of shutout ball. Thanks for hanging out with us!

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The Red Sox win a classic pitchers' duel between John Lackey and Justin Verlander. Mike Napoli provided the offense with his 7th-inning HR. Boston took care of business on the road and took a 2-1 series lead in the ALCS. Be sure to check back tomorrow as we bring you Game 4! 

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Austin Jackson had been mired in the worst slump of his career. He had struck out in nine of his last 10 at-bats, the Detroit Tigers leadoff hitter becoming a microcosm of his team's offensive struggles.

The Detroit Tigers wrested away home-field advantage from the Oakland Athletics, winning Game 1 of the ALDS, 3-2, on Friday night in the O.co Coliseum.

The Tigers hit the ground running in the top of the first inning.

Austin Jackson led off with a double to right field. The next batter, Torii Hunter, was hit by a pitch from A's starter Bartolo Colon and got a free pass to first base.

The Associated Press' Janie McCauley noted Colon had not hit a batter the entire regular season.

Mike Minor out-dueled Zach Greinke on Friday night, helping the Atlanta Braves tie the NLDS with a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a raucous crowd at Turner Field. 

After giving up a first-inning RBI double to Hanley Ramirez, it appeared as though Minor was intent on repeating Kris Medlen's performance from Thursday night's 6-1 drubbing. 

The Boston Red Sox took advantage of some defensive miscues by the Tampa Bay Rays to grab an early ALDS lead with a dominant 12-2 win at Fenway Park on Friday afternoon. 

Rays youngster Matt Moore was cruising to start Game 1, giving up zero hits the first time through Boston's formidable lineup. After getting solo home runs from Sean Rodriguez and Ben Zobrist, Moore carried a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth inning. 

Russell Martin hits two home runs and Francisco Liriano allows just four hits in seven innings as the Pirates win their first postseason game since 1992 by beating the Reds 6-2 in the NL Wild Card!

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The New York Yankees washed the fledgling Chicago White Sox out of a rain-soaked Bronx on Labor Day, 9-1. After a one-hour, 53-minute delay at Yankee Stadium on Monday, the Bombers' flood gates opened in an eight-run, seven-hit fourth inning.

The Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics met in a game with playoff implications in the American League, and the Athletics emerged victorious with a 4-3 win.

David Price will go in the books as the losing pitcher, as the Cy Young winner allowed 4 runs, 3 of which were earned, over 7 innings.

But it was the 8th inning in which he pitched where it fell apart, as Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon kept Price in to face Coco Crisp in the 8th inning, and the speedster would get a base hit.

A hit batter can be everything from an unfortunate accident, to a bench-clearing trigger to the cause of a season-ending injury. In some rare cases it can even result in a strikeout, and not one, but two players suffered that fate in Monday night's round of games.

Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips took a pitch to the right knee from Diamondbacks reliever Joe Thatcher, while Angels shortstop Erick Aybar was hit near the left knee with what looked to be a slider from Indians side-arming reliever Joe Smith.