Tablesetters: A Baseball Podcast
Tablesetters: A Baseball Podcast
Tablesetters: A Baseball Podcast
Division Series Preview: Dodgers vs. Braves, Yankees vs. Rays, Padres vs. Brewers & Guardians vs. White Sox | 188
1 hour 35 minutes Posted Oct 3, 2026 at 3:57 am.
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Episode 188 of Tablesetters is LIVE!
The Wild Card round is over, and now the postseason gets even tighter. Four best of five Division Series, eight teams and three wins separating everyone from the League Championship Series.
It starts with Dodgers vs. Braves, where Atlanta goes directly from an exhausting three game series against Philadelphia into a rested Los Angeles team with one of the deepest pitching staffs in baseball. The Braves dominated the regular season matchup, but how much does the road they took to get here change things now?
Then it’s Yankees vs. Rays after New York swept Boston and scored nine runs in both Wild Card games. Tampa Bay won 98 games and took the season series, but the Yankees enter with their rotation lined up and some major questions still surrounding Aaron Judge.
Padres vs. Brewers brings together Milwaukee’s starting pitching and a dangerous San Diego lineup, but the biggest story might be what happens once these games reach the later innings. And Guardians vs. White Sox gives us two teams separated by only one game with completely different strengths and a season series that was about as close as it gets.
We’re breaking down all four matchups, the pitching situations, biggest X factors, numbers that stand out and the decisions that could ultimately determine who moves on.
Four series. Eight teams. Three wins from the LCS!
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