St. Louis went 30-28 on the season and 16-15 on the road as they head to San Diego for a series with the hard hitting Padres. San Diego went 37-23 on the season with a 21-11 record at home. St. Louis is throwing Kwang-Hyun Kim who is 3-0 on the year with a 1.62 ERA and is 1-0 on the road with a 2.14 ERA. September Kim pitched to a 2.01 ERA and a 2-0 record in four starts. San Diego has Chris Paddack on the mound who went 4-5 with a 4.73 ERA and was 2-2 at home with a 4.11 ERA. Paddack was 1-2 in September with a 5.51 ERA and allowed 14 homeruns in 12 starts this season. San Diego will be off balanced all game by Kim and Paddack will do what he does give up a couple of long balls and strikeout batters in a 6-3 win for St. Louis. Play St. Louis

Chicago came out swinging in game one hitting three homeruns and got nearly a perfect start from Giolito who went seven innings, two hits, one run, one walk and eight strikeouts. Oakland didn't get their first baserunner until the 7th inning and only managed to scratch out one run and three total hits. Oakland is turning to Chris Bassitt to keep their season alive and he went 5-2 on the season with a 2.29 ERA. Bassitt was 2-1 at home this season with a 0.71 ERA allowing just three earned runs in six starts. In four September starts Bassitt was 3-0 with a 0.34 ERA allowing just one run in 26 innings. Chicago is throwing veteran starter Dallas Keuchel who is 6-2 on the year with a 1.99 ERA and was better on the road with a 3-1 mark and 1.60 ERA. Keuchel was 1-0 in four September starts with a 0.45 ERA allowing one run in 20 innings. Look for a great pitchers duel with the game ending up being a bullpen game with the White Sox winning the game 2-1 to end the series. Play Chicago White Sox

The Lakers lost game one to Portland before winning the next four, lost game one to Houston before winning the next four, against Denver they weren't messing around winning game one and completing the series in five games as well. Miami is set to have a seven game series if everything continues winning their opening series in four over Indiana, second series in five over Milwaukee and taking six against Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Lakers won both games between these two teams winning the first by 15 and the second by just three. Butler scored 22.5 points per game in the two match ups with the Lakers and Tyler Herro scored just seven points a game in the two meetings against the Lakers, but had a big series off the bench against Boston and has been a great scorer for the Heat. LeBron James is scoring 26.5 points per game in the two games, nine assists and 6.5 rebounds while Anthony Davis scored 29.5 points per game in the two match ups with Miami along with nine rebounds a game. Look for Davis to dominate the paint and outside as the Heat don't have an answer and are playing catch up on offense all game long in a Lakers game one win with a LeBron triple double in the 120-111 game. Play LA Lakers

Carlos Carrasco is Cleveland's hope to keep their season alive after a 12-3 loss to the Yankees last night. Carrasco is 5-5 in 12 career games with nine starts with a 4.04 ERA. Carrasco pitched once against the Yankees in 2017 throwing 5 2/3 shutout innings allowing three hits, three walks and struck out seven unfortunately in the 7th inning Cleveland brought in Miller who gave up a homerun to Greg Bird in a 1-0 win for the Yankees and the winning pitcher was Tanaka who is on the mound tonight for the Yankees. Tanaka pitched 7 shutout innings, three hits, one walk and seven strikeouts with Chapman picking up the save. Carrasco pitched to a 2.91 ERA, but went 3-4 on the season and 2-3 at home with a 3.03 ERA. Carrasco went 1-1 in September with a 1.97 ERA allowing just seven runs in five starts this month. Tanaka went 3-3 on the year with a 3.56 ERA but went 0-2 in four road starts with a 2.33 ERA. Tanaka was 3-2 in September with a 3.62 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 27 innings. Tanaka is 2-2 in six games against Cleveland with a 4.00 ERA and in Cleveland is 0-1 in three starts with a 5.09 ERA. Look for both starters to work into and out of plenty of jams going six and the Yankees pen pitching better in a 4-3 win for the Yankees to advance to the next round. Play NY Yankees