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Follow live: Manzardo smashes a homer, Guardians on the board

It’s another blockbuster night in MLB’s league championship series.

First, the New York Yankees are in Cleveland up 2-0 over the Cleveland Guardians in the ALCS. Later, the Los Angeles Dodgers look to take a commanding 3-1 NLCS lead over the New York Mets at Citi Field.

With all four of baseball’s final four teams in action, we’ve got you covered with live updates and analysis from both games, plus takeaways and what’s next for the winners and losers after the final pitch.

Live updates

Today’s matchups

All times Eastern

Yankees lead series 2-0

Pitching matchup: Clarke Schmidt (5-5, 2.85 ERA) vs. Matthew Boyd (2-2, 2.72 ERA)

Lineups

Yankees

2B Gleyber Torres (R)
RF Juan Soto (L)
CF Aaron Judge (R)
DH Giancarlo Stanton (R)
3B Jazz Chisholm Jr (L)
1B Jon Berti (R)
SS Anthony Volpe (R)
LF Alex Verdugo (L)
C Jose Trevino (R)

Guardians

LF Steven Kwan (L)
DH Kyle Manzardo (L)
3B Jose Ramirez (S)
1B Josh Naylor (L)
CF Lane Thomas (R)
RF Daniel Schneemann (L)
2B Andres Gimenez (L)
C Austin Hedges (R)
2B Brayan Rocchio (S)


Dodgers lead series 2-1

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

Lineups

Dodgers

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

Mets

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

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