The matches of the 2025 MLB series series begin to take shape after Los -angles Doders He became the first team to leave the round of wild cards.
SWEEP LA creates the exposure of a division series with Philadelphia Phillis Starting on Saturday in Philadelphia.
What did we learn about each team? What should every remaining team do to go to the series of the League Championship? What players can be October differences? And what favorites should be upset, looks at the front day?
Experts ESPN MLB Horge Castillo, Bradford Dutylitl and David Schenfield here to break all this, since each match of a series of divisions.
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NLDS: LOS -ANGELES DODDERS against Philadelphia Phillis
Upset forecast: (Doders wins more simulations) Why is there no number in this information in brackets? We would have to use too many decimal tenes! Dodedes really won more Sims, but their advantage was four – out of 10,000 runs from the forecasting mechanism. In this sense, in this match it cannot be upset, which is quite possible, the two strongest teams remaining in the bracket.
It is similar to the match that the PPZ will decide, and even this is a tightening. Doders headed the majoror in “exploding salvations” in the second half, but their number of KPZ is better than Philadelphia since the beginning of September. Maybe it's so simple: when it doubts, choose a team that Shohei OtaniField
Phillis worries levels: Cornses. Listen, Phillis knows who they play. Nose Kyle SchwarberIN Bryce HarperIN Tere TurnerIN Christopher Sanchez And JHOAN DURAN On their side, this is not a team that will worry about nothing. They will just wait for the adrenaline to flow. – Dutylite
Los -angles Doders
What impressed you most in them in the round of wild cards?
Dodedes actually did not knock out his “team” most of the season, since they liked most of the season, but now we can see how good this team can be with a healthy rotation. Blake Snell He was dominant in the first game, so far, finally, tiring in the seventh. Yoshinobu YamamotoThe seasonal ace for Dodgers was solid in the game 2, avoiding the sixth -based jam loaded with a base jam. Doders were quite confident in these two that they saved Otan for the fact that it would be a game 3 – and now the game 1 NLD. Oh, Otani can also hit a little. Remember that the Dodders won all this last season, when Otani had a good, but not a loud postsezon in the plate. After his play with two strokes in game 1, be careful.
Why/will it continue against Phillis?
Dodders, of course, should love where they are. Ohtani slowly made his way to the usual workload and broke six taxes in his last start, throwing 91 steps. He allowed only one mileage on his last four and handed over only three Honyan in 47 taxes. Thanks to three potential days off, to play five games in this series, Otani could start the game 5 for six days of rest.
After his initial performances in one Inning in June, Otani gave at least six days off between the starts, and three starts in September amounted to eight, 10 and six days of rest, and he will have 10 days before the appearance of 1 NLDS in the game. Dodeders will worry about NLC if they get there.
Which player should deliver to the moose -angles to move on?
This is clearly about the players, the plural – as in embossed jugs. The schematized KPZ Doders did not weaken the trust of the fans of the Doders-Ili Daiva Roberts-s with a bad show in the game 1 against Cincinnati, when the Dodders had a 10-2 leader to see how the KPZ begins to walk all, and the Reds were loading the bases and the tie up on the deck ran. Who Roberts trusts situations with the highest resolution, and can deliver, stands out. – Schenfield
Philadelphia Phillis
What was postponed by Phillis before the October -free goodbye?
Starting rotation and season of monsters from Kyle SchwarberThe rotation field brought NL in an era and headed the majorors – to 51 taxes – in the presentation. Christopher Sanchez he went with his own season of monsters – in fact, it was Sanchez, not Paul scenes or Pull the scumwho were headed by major in the baseball war. Meanwhile, Schwarber headed NL with 56 Home-Ranes and 132 ICR, including setting a major league record with 23 Home Ranes as a left-wing liquid dough against left jugs.
Will it continue against the Dodders?
Of course, most of this success of rotation was Zack WheelerBut it comes out for the postszon. Ranger Suarez I had an amazing season, but I was not good for its last three starts, allowing 12 runs and four homes -rays in the 14th presentation. And the fourth starter after Jesus Luzardo This is either Aaron Nolawhich does not quite inspire confidence, given the 6.01 era, and the consistent postsesons lead to his career, or Walker BulerWhich was signed at the end of August after Red Sox released it. In other words: there are at least some small fears about the rotation, which was so good.
As for Schwarber: he proved, before he became tough in October, and left his best season, he is ready for a large post -season season.
Which player should deliver to put Philadelphia in NLC?
Tere Turner feels like a key guy here. Schwarber and Bryce Harper participated in the performers of the play -off throughout their career, but Phillis would need an insult to more than these two – and this was the problem of the last two postmosions. Turner had the best season with Phillis, but most of September missed an injury to the pod -binding tendon, returning only to two bits in the final game of the regular season. He sets the table for Schwarber and Harper. If he sits on the base, this is a very good thing. – Schenfield
