MLB Divisional Round Game 1 Live Playoff Updates, Results, Highlights From Every Game

It's the first day of the Division Series round of the 2026 MLB playoffs, and baseball fans are getting their money's worth with four Game 1s on the schedule.

In the American League, it's the Chicago White Sox vs. the Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays. For the National League, it's the San Diego Padres vs. the Milwaukee Brewers and the Atlanta Braves vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers.

If you like ace pitchers, today is the day for you. Two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal is on the mound for the Dodgers. Likely NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski has the ball for Milwaukee.

Keep it here for live updates, highlights, commentary, final scores and anything else worth knowing.

He stood and admired and chucked the bat. You have to have really crushed a ball if you're going to do that*.

That ball got out of sight in a hurry, sheesh.

Teoscar Hernández Doesn't Miss, 2-0 Dodgers

Pitches don't get more down the middle than that, nor do they get hit much harder. That was 109.9 mph and 431 feet for a two-run homer.

The Braves now have to get two runs against Tarik Skubal, who's been spectacular so far.

Tommy Edman Lays Out to Help Out Tarik Skubal

That's Gold Glove defense right there. Heck of a play.

Skubal got the next two outs with ease. He's at 55 pitches with six strikeouts through four scoreless innings.

That's 3.0 scoreless innings for the lefty after he got Shohei Ohtani to line out to end the third.

After Ray Kerr went 3.1 scoreless in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series, that's now 6.1 total scoreless innings for Braves openers in back-to-back games. Walt Weiss must be thrilled.

Tarik Skubal Can Also Strike Out the Side

Pretty good pitchers' duel so far. Altogether, Braves and Dodgers hitters are 2-for-17 with nine strikeouts.

He's matching Tarik Skubal so far, though he may not go much further after 32 pitches. His high during the regular season was 39 pitches.

It had been 100.4 mph before he hit 101.1 on a ball to Austin Riley. He seems loose.

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Shohei Ohtani singled after this, so it could have been first and second or first and third for the Dodgers with nobody out.

Instead, the Dodgers went quietly without scoring in their half of the first.

He averaged 97.8 mph on his fastball, a full 1 mph increase on his 96.8 mph average during the regular season. He topped out at 99.6 mph.

No score for the Braves. Dodgers are coming up for the bottom of the first.

Those on the ground are saying 100 degrees on the nose. AccuWeather says 103 degrees, with RealFeel of 105 degrees.

According to Baseball Reference , the only playoff game to ever start amid triple-digit temperatues was Game 1 of the 2017 World Series between the Dodgers and Astros. And that was a night game.

Cleveland fans didn't have much to cheer for in this one. Parker Messick was upstaged by five White Sox pitchers, and the Guardians got only three hits.

Grant Taylor worked the last four innings to get the save. He's only the 10th pitcher to ever record a four-out save in the playoffs, and the first since Lance McCullers Jr. in 2017.

The series will resume with Game 2 on Monday at 5:00 p.m. ET.

The Japanese Call of Munetaka Murakami's HR Is Awesome

The language of excitement is universal.

It's a bullpen game for Atlanta. Dylan Dodd did not make a single start this year, and topped out at 3.0 innings in relief.

Tarik Skubal is not, of course, a mere opener. He was somewhat shaky in his first three starts for the Dodgers, but then ripped off a 2.40 ERA and 1.88 FIP over hos last seven.

Colson Montgomery Adds On, 3-0 White Sox

Talk about a master class in hitting it where they ain't. And this from a three-true-outcomes guy who hit 31 home runs but also set a single-season record with 227 strikeouts.

The Guardians have nine outs left to get three runs.

Angel Martínez Starts One of the Better Double Plays You'll Ever See

Tommy Pham hit that ball at 106.1 mph, so tough luck on his part. That's otherwise as clutch as catches get, and it notably held up upon review.

The double play preserved a 2-0 deficit for the Guardians.

This was 112.2 mph off the bat and it landed 440 feet from home plate, giving the White Sox a 2-0 lead over the Guardians.

This was after Cleveland had loaded the bases on three straight walks in bottom of the third, only to get nothing after Chase DeLauter lined out. Between these two events, you're not going to find a better illustration of the value of the long ball in October. It's easier to hit the ball over the fence than it is to string baserunners together.