MLB wild-card series: Who will stay alive in win-or-go-home Game 3s?

It's win-or-go-home Thursday successful the MLB wild-card round!

After losing their bid openers, the Cleveland Guardians, San Diego Padres and New York Yankees each rebounded with Game 2 wins connected Wednesday -- mounting up a melodramatic time with 3 winner-take-all Game 3s. It's lone the 2nd clip successful shot past to big 3 winner-takes-all playoff games successful 1 day.

Who has the borderline with part bid berths connected the line? We've got you covered with pregame lineups, sights and sounds from the ballparks and postgame takeaways arsenic each matchup ends.

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DET-CLE | SD-CHC | BOS-NYY

Detroit Tigers astatine Cleveland Guardians

3 p.m. ET connected ESPN

Game 3 starters: Jack Flaherty vs. Slade Cecconi

One happening that volition determine Game 3: Perhaps it's a wide brush, but Detroit's quality to get the shot successful play and person scoring opportunities into existent runs -- oregon not -- is apt to determine Thursday's game. The Tigers person managed to get prime at-bats aboriginal successful innings and make plentifulness of postulation connected the bags, but they've been wholly incapable to crook those scoring chances into runs. Their 15 runners near connected basal successful Game 2 was a grounds for a franchise whose postseason past dates backmost to 1907. Over 3 imaginable elimination games going backmost to past year's ALDS matchup, the Tigers are a combined 3-for-38 (.079) with runners successful scoring position. That indispensable alteration oregon Detroit volition beryllium done. -- Bradford Doolittle

Lineups

Tigers

TBD

Guardians

TBD

San Diego Padres astatine Chicago Cubs

5 p.m. ET connected ABC

Game 3 starters: Yu Darvish vs. Jameson Taillon

One happening that volition determine Game 3: Look, this is going to beryllium a conflict of the bullpens. Yu Darvish and Jameson Taillon are some going to beryllium connected a precise speedy hook, adjacent if they're pitching well. But the quality mightiness beryllium which of those starters tin get 14 oregon 15 outs alternatively of 10 oregon 11, particularly for the P...