MLB Division Series 2026 results: Cleveland rally from 0-2 to beat the White Sox, setting up Rays-Guardians and Brewers-Dodgers in the League Championship Series

Game 5 of Cleveland-White Sox was played in Cleveland at 9 a.m. on Sunday, October 11 in Korea (Saturday, October 10 in the US), and Cleveland won it 2-0. That gave Cleveland the series 3-2 and finished all four Division Series. Through to the best-of-seven League Championship Series are Tampa Bay, 3-0 over the Yankees, and Cleveland, 3-2 over the White Sox, in the American League, and Milwaukee, 3-1 over San Diego, and the Dodgers, 3-1 over Atlanta, in the National League. The higher seed won all four series. All four top-two seeds, the clubs that skipped the Wild Card round, went through, so both pairings are No. 1 against No. 2. The White Sox, the Yankees, San Diego and Atlanta are out.

Every result and date here comes from the ESPN postseason data behind this site's postseason page and team pages. The cut-off is Sunday night, October 11, Korea time: all 16 Division Series games are final, and no League Championship Series game has been played. Dates and times are Korea time, with the US date added where it helps. When each series can end was counted from its schedule. This piece covers results and the arithmetic of the schedule only, with no forecasts and no probabilities.

Cleveland-White Sox. This was the AL Central winner Cleveland (85-77) against the White Sox (84-78), who finished a game behind. The sixth-seeded White Sox won Games 1 and 2 at second seed Cleveland, 3-0 and 4-3, to lead 2-0, and Cleveland won the last three. Cleveland won Game 3 9-3 in Chicago on Thursday, October 8 in Korea and Game 4 9-5 there on Friday, October 9 (Thursday, October 8 in the US) to level at 2-2, then won Game 5 at home 2-0 on October 11. As our previous piece said, Cleveland needed both Game 4 on the road and Game 5 at home to turn the series around, and it won both. The road side won each of the first four games, and Game 5 was the first won by the home side, also Cleveland's first home win of this postseason. The series began with a 3-0 White Sox shutout and ended with a 2-0 Cleveland one. Cleveland outscored the White Sox 23-15 over the five games, and 20-8 over the last three.

The White Sox won both Wild Card Series games at third seed Houston, 6-3 and 7-3, and then Games 1 and 2 in Cleveland, opening this postseason with four straight road wins. They then lost Games 3 and 4 at home and Game 5 in Cleveland, and finish the postseason 4-3: 4-1 on the road and 0-2 at home.

The other three series ended on Thursday, October 8, Korea time. Top seed Tampa Bay swept the Yankees 1-0, 5-2 and 4-3; top seed Milwaukee beat San Diego 3-1 with scores of 3-2, 4-3, 3-4 and 3-1; and second seed Los Angeles beat Atlanta 3-1 with scores of 5-3, 2-3, 3-1 and 4-1. Over each series Tampa Bay outscored the Yankees 10-5, Milwaukee outscored San Diego 13-10, and the Dodgers outscored Atlanta 14-8. Game-by-game detail on those three is in our previous piece.

Across the 16 Division Series games, the road side won nine and the home side seven. Seven were decided by one run, there were three shutouts (Tampa Bay 1-0, White Sox 3-0 and Cleveland 2-0), and none went to extra innings. Neither Game 4 on October 9 nor Game 5 on October 11 was a one-run game.

The National League Championship Series is top seed Milwaukee (103-59 in the regular season) against second seed Los Angeles (100-62). The home pattern is 2-3-2: Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 in Milwaukee and Games 3 to 5 in Los Angeles. Game 1 is at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 12 in Korea (Sunday night, October 11 in the US), Game 2 at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, October 13, Game 3 at 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 15, and Game 4 at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 16. Game 5 is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 17, Game 6 at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 19, and Game 7 at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20, with Games 5 to 7 played only if needed.

The American League Championship Series is top seed Tampa Bay (98-64) against second seed Cleveland (85-77). Games 1 and 2 are in Tampa Bay at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 13 and Wednesday, October 14; Games 3 and 4 in Cleveland at 7 a.m. on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, and Game 5 there at 9 a.m. on Sunday, October 18; and Games 6 and 7 back in Tampa Bay at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20 and 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 21. Games 5 to 7 are played only if needed. On Tuesday, October 13 there are two games: NLCS Game 2 at 6 a.m. and ALCS Game 1 at 9 a.m. Cleveland opens on the road two days after Game 5 on October 11, while Tampa Bay plays for the first time since Division Series Game 3 on October 8.

Our previous piece was written before start times were set, so it gave each Korea date as the day after the US game date. With the times now known, every Korea date in both series is unchanged. A club needs four wins, so neither series can end before Game 4: the NLCS ends between Game 4 on Friday, October 16 and Game 7 on Tuesday, October 20, and the ALCS between Game 4 on Saturday, October 17 and Game 7 on Wednesday, October 21. Korea start times for every game are also on the schedule page.

Each club's page shows where it stands in the postseason. Through to the League Championship Series are Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Milwaukee and the Dodgers; out in the Division Series are the White Sox, the Yankees, San Diego and Atlanta. Every series and the bracket are on the postseason page. Results through Games 3 and 4 are in our previous piece, results through Game 2 in the one before it, and the seeding and tiebreaker rules in our explainer. This site's clinch and tragic numbers are a regular-season calculation and stay frozen at the final standings of September 28.