Three of the four teams in this year's League Championship Series are confirmed and the race to reach the World Series is hotting up in Major League Baseball.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were the first team to confirm their place in the final four as they triumphed 4-1 over the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park to clinch a third consecutive National League Championship series appearance.
Dispatching the Braves in four whilst allowing just eight runs, the Dodgers are the favourites to achieve a World Series three-peat and standing in their way next is the top-seeded Milwaukee Brewers.
LA swept the Brewers on their way to the World Series in 2025, but Milwaukee chief Pat Murphy believes the Dodgers are facing an entirely different proposition on this occasion.
The Brewers have been scintillating this year with 103 wins in the regular season, the best record of any team, and they've maintained their excellent form into the post-season by dispatching San Diego Padres in four as they go in search of their first World Series appearance since 1982.
The odds suggest whichever team triumphs in the National League showdown will have the edge over their American League rivals.
Tampa Bay Rays wrapped up a comprehensive whitewash of baseball's most storied team, the New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay finished an American League-best 98-64 in the regular season, then dominated the Yankees to reach its third ALCS. The Rays boast a winning record against both possible opponents in the League Championship series, going 4-2 this year against the Chicago White Sox and 5-1 versus the Cleveland Guardians.
The White Sox and Guardians meet in a series decider at Progressive Field after Cleveland levelled by rallying for six runs in the sixth to win 9-5.
The Rays are the odds-on favourites to reach a third World Series, irrespective of what unfolds between the White Sox and the Guardians on Saturday night.
MLB League Championship Series odds
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