Viewers are showing up in big numbers for October baseball, with this year’s postseason delivering some of MLB’s strongest ratings in years. Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Mariners and Blue Jays on Sunday drew an average of 10.

The Seattle Mariners will look to put the Toronto Blue Jays on the brink of elimination when they meet in Game 3 of their best-of-seven 2025 American League Championship Series on Wednesday. Seattle seized a 2-0 series lead in the ALCS with a 10-3 win in Toronto on Monday.

Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto makes MLB postseason history not done since 1954 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

Los Angeles jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the series, thanks to back-to-back superb performances from star pitchers Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The pair combined to pitch 17 innings over the last two games and surrendered just one run between the two.

Find Tuesday's best bets for the biggest games from the SportsLine Projection Model and top CBS Sports experts

"I don't know if you can write enough words in your stories about our starting pitching. It really has been amazing,” Freddie Freeman said.

Pope Leo XIV responded to a fan who yelled "Go Cubs!" by reminding them that "they lost" in the NLDS against the Milwaukee Brewers. No surprises there—Pope Leo XIV is an avowed Chicago White Sox fan: