The second day of the 2025 MLB playoffs is in the books and three out of four series are headed to a do-or-die Game 3. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the lone team to wrap up their Wild Card Series, sweeping the Cincinnati Reds in dominating fashion.

CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Chicago Cubs’ uniquely talented center fielder, did not bury the lede in his essay for The Players’ Tribune, hyping up Major League Baseball’s postseason tournament: “I feel like I’ve been f—in’ searching for something lately.”

Get the MLB playoffs schedule for the Wild Card Round and Divisional Series for the American and National Leagues.

Win or go home. Do-or-die. No tomorrow. However you want to phrase it, there’s nothing like an MLB postseason elimination game, and Wrigley Field will be the site of one starting late

On Thursday, the Chicago Cubs are turning to Jameson Taillon for their biggest start of the season. The Padres are countering with former Cub Yu Darvish.

The Cubs return to Wrigley Field with a chance to clinch the Wild Card series and move on in the MLB postseason. Follow along here for live updates from Wrigley Field.

Against surprise 2025 standout Matthew Boyd on the mound for the Cubbies, San Diego took an early lead in this game when Xander Bogaerts rocketed a ball into the left-center gap for an RBI double. After gaining that lead in the top half of the second, Nick Pivetta and the Dads kept Chicago scoreless through their first four chances on offense.

The All-MLB started back in 2019 and looks at athletes all around baseball at their respected positions. The regular season is all that voters are looking at fo

David Ross, who served as the Cubs' skipper from 2020 to 2023, was fired in November of the latter year when Chicago stole Craig Counsell from the division-rival Milwaukee Brewers. In two offseasons since, Ross has been passed over by teams looking for new skippers, and his third attempt to find work is about to commence.