It’s another great night in the MLB championship series, and what a night it’s been so far.

First, the Cleveland Guardians earned their first win in the ALCS in dramatic fashion. They tied the game in the ninth with a two-out, two-run homer before David Fry fired a two-run shot in the 10th inning for the 7-5 walk-off win over the New York Yankees, tying the lead of New York in the series was cut. to 2-1. Meanwhile, in the NLCS, the Los Angeles Dodgers look to take a commanding 3-1 lead over the New York Mets at Citi Field.

With all four of baseball’s final four teams in action, we’ll have live updates and analysis from both games, plus what’s next for the winners and losers after the final pitch.

Live updates

Takeaways

Yankees lead series 2-1

The Guardians controlled Game 3 for most of the night, according to a script that couldn’t have been more perfect. Matthew Boyd pitched five sharp innings to hand the lead to the leverage-relay team of Cade Smith, Tim Herrin, Hunter Gaddis and Emmanuel Clase – and things were going well until Clase’s anchor leg of the reliever relay. Baseball’s most dominant reliever, a man who gave up two home runs during the regular season, gave up a stunning game-tying two-run slicing blast to Aaron Judge, and then a solo shot to Giancarlo Stanton.

So it was the Yankees with the perfect script, flipping a two-run lead to red-hot closer Luke Weaver in the ninth. Two down. None on. Two strikes. Lane Thomas doubled off the wall to keep the Guardians alive. Then, on the second pitch he saw, rookie pinch-hitter Jhonkensy Noel launched one into the left-field seats. The scripts? Out the window. And the new script called for a starring role for Cleveland’s super-utility All-Star David Fry, who hit a two-run stunner to leave Clay Holmes behind to make it go to Cleveland. The Guardians were almost dead, and now they’re very much alive. This game has a win probability graph that looks like the worst roller coaster ride ever designed.

What you can see in Game 4: The Guardians and Yankees will both turn to young righties making their postseason debuts in Game 4: Gavin Williams for Cleveland, Luis Gil for New York. Gil had the much better regular season. Both pitchers have tried to stay sharp with simulation games and side sessions. We’ll see who’s ready from the opening bell tomorrow, but the early innings on Friday will be crucial. Anyway, we have a series. –Bradford Doolittle

Match up

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Dodgers lead series 2-1

Pitching match: Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-2, 3.00 ERA) vs. Jose Quintana (10-10, 3.75 ERA)

Setups

Evaders

Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
Mookie Betts (R) RF
Teoscar Hernandez (R) LF
Tommy Edman (S) SS
Enrique Hernandez (right) 3B
Max Muncy (L) 1B
Will Smith (R) C
Andy Pages (R) CF
Chris Taylor (right) 2B

Mets

Francisco Lindor (S) SS
Mark Vientos (right) 3B
Pete Alonso (right) 1B
Brandon Nimmo (L) LF
Starling Marte (R) RF
JD Martinez (R) DH
José Iglesias (R) 2B
Harrison Bader (R) CF
Francisco Alvarez (right) C