MLB wild-card series Day 2: Keys to forcing Game 3, lineups and analysis

Who is acceptable for immoderate much MLB playoff action?

After the archetypal time of the wild-card circular featured adjacent wins by the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres and Boston Red Sox, it's clip for the archetypal imaginable elimination time of the 2025 postseason.

Who volition enactment live and who volition beryllium sent packing?

We've got you covered with pregame lineups, keys to forcing Game 3, sights and sounds from the ballparks, and postgame takeaways arsenic each Day 2 matchup ends.

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Detroit Tigers astatine Cleveland Guardians

1 p.m. ET connected ESPN

Tigers pb 1-0

Game 2 starters: Casey Mize vs. Tanner Bibee

What the Guardians request to bash to unit Game 3: Figure retired a mode to people immoderate runs. Hey, astatine slightest they won't beryllium facing Tarik Skubal. The Guardians' champion stake is to person Jose Ramirez oregon Kyle Manzardo tally into something, arsenic Mize tin beryllium susceptible to the location tally astatine times (21 allowed successful 149 innings). But possibly Cleveland tin get Mize to tally up his number and unit AJ Hinch to spell a small earlier than helium would similar to a Detroit bullpen that was shaky successful September (2-8, 4.58 ERA) and particularly struggled successful adjacent games. -- David Schoenfield

Lineups

Tigers

TBD

Guardians

TBD

San Diego Padres astatine Chicago Cubs

3 p.m. ET connected ABC

Cubs pb 1-0

Game 2 starters: Dylan Cease vs. Andrew Kittredge

What the Padres request to bash to unit Game 3: As ascendant arsenic ...