With the Wild Card Series round in the books, the 2025 postseason moves on to its next phase: the best-of-five Division Series. The first Division Series matchup was set on Wednesday night -- after sweeping the Reds in the National League Wild Card Series,

Yankees vs. Blue Jays: It’s not often the division winner qualifies as an underdog, but the Yankees are the defending AL champs, and the Blue Jays are coming off a multiyear stretch of underperformance. This is a close matchup.

MLB's Division Series is the second of four rounds in the postseason. Eight teams advance to the Division Series, four of which receive a bye by finishing with one of the top two seeds in their league. Only four of MLB's 12 playoff teams don't reach the Division Series.

Wednesday, Major League Baseball released the schedule for the first couple of days of the Division Series. That schedule had only the times for the first two games of the Cubs/Brewers series, Saturday and Monday.

Our writers answer four crucial questions on what to expect in the MLB Division Series, both the American and National Leagues.

And then there were eight. With the wild-card round in the rearview mirror, it's on to the division series, where the top four teams in the bracket get in on the postseason fun. It's a mix of upstarts and powerhouses as Tigers vs.

The Division Series is a best of seven series. The Yankees and Blue Jays tied for the American League East title with 94-68 regular season records. The Blue Jays won the division by winning the season series against the Yankees, eight games to five. The winning margin was the tiebreaker used to determine the league champion.

Kevin Gausman appears the clear choice to start Game 1. After that, things get murky for Toronto's rotation against New York.