Sunday's games across baseball are synchronized with all 15 contests starting between 3:05 and 3:20 p.m. ET so by dinner time, MLB's playoff picture should be official. The playoffs begin on Tuesday with the best-of-three wild card series.

The Mariners on Friday announced that, beginning next season, Major League Baseball will take over the distribution of their game telecasts and streaming, roles previously fulfilled by ROOT Sports. Essentially,

A day after Blake Snell posted eight historically dominant innings in Game 1, Yoshinobu Yamamoto did him one better with a complete game in a 5-1 Dodgers win. His final line: nine innings, three hits allowed, one run, one walk and seven strikeouts on 111 pitches.