2:40 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Coming into the National League Championship Series, we — the reliable baseball experts of the media world — smugly thought we had the Milwaukee Brewers‘ plan for beating the Los Angeles Dodgers all laid out. Get an early lead, likely with thunderous offense led by MVP candidate Christian Yelich.

8:32 PM ET HOUSTON — If Alex Bregman was trying to get a rise out of the Boston Red Sox, it didn’t work. On Monday, the Houston third baseman posted a video to his Instagram account that showed the Astros hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs at Minute Maid Park against Nathan Eovaldi, with the text caption,

11:10 AM ET The Atlanta Braves have given manager Brian Snitker a two-year contract extension with a club option for 2021, the team announced on Monday. Snitker, in his third year managing the team, led the Braves to a 92-70 record and the National League East title, their first division crown since 2013. Brian Snitker

2:09 AM ET BOSTON — It’s never easy in postseason baseball. With the final swing of the game Sunday night, Alex Bregman sent the ball sailing out toward left field. In any other park in the major leagues, it’s a majestic — but routine — fly ball. At Fenway Park, with the Green Monster looming

6:56 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Yasmani Grandal will be back behind the plate for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series after sitting out Game 2 following a historically bad night in Game 1. The move paved the way for Austin Barnes to catch Hyun-Jin Ryu in the Dodgers‘ 4-3 win over the

7:00 AM ET It wasn’t the most crisp win in postseason history, but the Astros ground down the Red Sox bullpen to notch a 7-2 victory in Fenway Park in the first game of the American League Championship Series. Will they be able to expand on that lead before the series heads back to Houston

2:40 AM ET BOSTON — At times, Game 1 of the American League Championship Series devolved into a comedy of errors and miscues, looking more like a rec league softball game between two teams that were sipping from can of Natty Light between innings. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a current exhibition

8:40 AM ET BOSTON — As the Boston Red Sox took the field for their workout Friday, the day before the opening game of their American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros, the sun suddenly broke through a dreary gray sky and shined a dazzling light on the perfect checkerboard cut of the outfield

12:20 PM ET The American League Championship Series hasn’t even started, and it is already historic. The Boston Red Sox vs. the Houston Astros matchup marks the first time in major league history that a team with as many as 108 victories in a season (Boston) will face a team with 103 victories in a

2:57 AM ET MILWAUKEE — The inning, which defined Game 1 of the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers, was about as unlikely as one you’ll see in baseball. But if Milwaukee wins the best-of-seven series, it might look back at Friday night’s third inning and know it was