In Game 2, Mike Zunino and Hunter Renfroe both homered for the Rays as they blew out the Blue Jays to complete the sweep.
In Game 3, the White Sox jumped out to an early 3-0 lead, but the Athletics went on a 6-1 run across the fourth and fifth innings to close out the series and advance.
Game 2 remained tied until the top of the seventh when Carlos Correa hit a go-ahead solo home run to put the Astros in the lead for good.
The Yankees blew out the Indians in Game 1 as Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres, Giancarlo Stanton, and Brett Gardner all homered for New York.
Clayton Kershaw and Brusdar Graterol would silence the Milwaukee offense in Game 2 as the Dodgers won 3-0 to close out the series.
Ian Anderson pitched six solid innings in Game 2 as the Braves blanked the Reds 5-0 to close out the series and advance.
The first was in the highly controversial 2003 NLCS, which the Marlins won in seven games as a result of the Cubs’ collapse after the Steve Bartman incident.
Sandy Alcántara pitched six solid innings and Corey Dickerson and Jesús Aguilar homered for the Marlins as they won 5-1 in Game 1.
Game 2 was a pitchers’ duel between both teams’ bullpens, which was broken in the top of the seventh when Garrett Cooper hit a home run off Yu Darvish to put the Marlins ahead for good.
The Yankees blew out the Rays in Game 1 as Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Clint Frazier, and Kyle Higashioka all homered for New York.
Game 2 was an offensive shootout between both teams, which was won by the Rays as Austin Meadows, Mike Zunino, Manuel Margot, and Randy Arozarena all hit home runs.
In Game 3, Arozarena homered again along with Michael Pérez and Kevin Kiermaier as the Rays won 8-4 to take the series lead.
The Yankees struck back in Game 4 to even the series as Gleyber Torres and Luke Voit both hit home runs to contribute to a 5-1 victory.
In Game 2, George Springer and Martín Maldonado chased Oakland’s Sean Manaea from the mound as they won 5-1 to take a 2-0 series lead.
In Game 3, five different players - Tommy La Stella, Mark Canha, Matt Olson, Marcus Semien, and Chad Pinder, all homered as the Athletics prevailed in an offensive shootout.
Game 4 would be won by the Astros’ offense as Carlos Correa, Michael Brantley, and Jose Altuve all homered for Houston in an 11-6 victory.
In Game 2, Swanson and d'Arnaud homered again, and Ian Anderson and the Braves bullpen blanked the Marlins as they took a 2-0 series lead.
Kyle Wright pitched six innings of shutout baseball in Game 3 as the Braves blew out the Marlins to complete the sweep.
However, the Rays managed to hold on and win Game 7 to avenge their 2019 ALDS defeat against Houston, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 2008.
Former Astro Charlie Morton outdueled his old teammate in Lance McCullers Jr. in a pitcher’s duel in Game 2 as the Rays took a 2-0 series lead.
However, the Astros wouldn’t make history as the Rays jumped out to a 4-0 lead thanks to home runs from Mike Zunino and Randy Arozarena and maintained it to win 4-2 and clinch the pennant, surviving a scare.
The Astros would win the AL pennant the next year over the Boston Red Sox in six games, and in 2022 over the New York Yankees in a sweep.
Game 2 was a shootout between both teams’ offenses, which was won by the Braves as Freeman and Albies hit more home runs.
The Braves responded with a blowout victory of their own in Game 4, as the Atlanta offense chased Clayton Kershaw from the mound.
Walker Buehler pitched six solid innings and Kenley Jansen got the save as the Dodgers narrowly won to force a seventh game.
Both teams would meet again in the 2021 NLCS, which the Braves won in six games en route to a World Series title.
The Dodgers would next win their next NL pennant in 2024 over the New York Mets in six games en route to another World Series title.
The decision proved to be fatal for the Rays, as the Dodgers scored three unanswered runs in the bottom of the sixth and eighth innings to secure the title.
With the temporary expansion to a 16-team playoff format, Wild Card Series games aired across TBS, ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC.