ALCS 1: Mariners 3, Blue Jays 1ALCS 2: Mariners 10, Blue Jays 3NLCS 1: Dodgers 2, Brewers 1NLCS 2: Dodgers 5, Brewers 1

The Seattle Mariners have never won more than two games in an ALCS. They lost both the 1995 and 2000 ALCS in six games. If they win Game 3 tonight, it will be the farthest the 49-year-old franchise has ever gotten in the postseason.

Also: No team has ever won an LCS (best-of-5 or best-of-7) after losing the first two games at home. We will see if the Blue Jays and/or Brewers can pull it off.

While Shohei Ohtani (1-for-7) and Mookie Betts (0-for-7) have been quiet atop Los Angeles' lineup (the pair has walked five times), Blake Snell (8-1-0-0-10, 103) and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (9-3-1-1-7, 111) have carried the team with two superb starts.

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Starts of 8+ innings & 1 or no runs allowed in each of first 2 games of postseason series, last 50 years:
2025 NLCS Dodgers
1983 NLCS Dodgers
1981 NLDS Dodgers
1981 ALDS A's
1981 NLDS Astros 
h/t @EliasSports

The 17 IP pitched by Snell and Yamamoto are the most by any team's SP over the first two games of a postseason series since the 2005 White Sox threw 17 1/3 IP in the ALCS
h/t @MLBNetwork research squad

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 5th pitcher to throw his first career MLB complete game (reg or post) in the Postseason, joining:
Marco Estrada G1 2016 ALCS, 8.0 IP
Josh Beckett G5 2003 NLCS
Liván Hernández G5 1997 NLCS 
Jim Beattie G5 1978 WS
h/t @EliasSports

This is the second season where the road team went up 2-0 in BOTH LCS in the same year, joining:
1970, the second year of LCS play, when the round was best-of-5

Frst postseason complete game since: 2017 Justin Verlander ALCS G2
Last first for Dodgers since: 2004 Jose Lima NLDS G3

This is the first time the Dodgers got consecutive postseason starts of 8+ innings since Oct. 4-5, 1988 Games 1 & 2 of NLCS vs. Mets – Orel Hershiser & Tim Belcher.
h/t @EliasSports

Allowed leadoff home run and threw complete game, postseason history:
2025 NLCS G2 Yoshinobu Yamamoto

1954 WS G2 Johnny Antonelli

1942 WS G5 Johnny Beazley 

1909 WS G5 Babe Adams
Only Yamamoto and Antonelli also allowed no other runs

The Dodgers are the 5th team in postseason history to allow a leadoff home run and allow no other runs the rest of the game, joining:
2025 ALCS G1 Mariners 
2018 WS G5 Red Sox
2012 ALDS G1 Tigers 
1954 WS G2 Giants

Lowest starters ERA in 1st 8 games of a postseason:
2018 Brewers: 0.68 (26 2/3 IP)

2012 Tigers: 0.96 (56 1/3)

1972 A's: 1.33 (54)

1981 Dodgers : 1.44 (62 1/3)

1995 Cleveland: 1.46 (55 2/3)

2025 Dodgers: 1.54 (52 2/3)

1983 Orioles: 1.54 (52 2/3)

1981 Expos: 1.54 (58 1/3)

Complete game with no opponent at-bats with runners in scoring position, postseason last 20 years:
2025 NLCS G2 Yoshinobu Yamamoto

2010 NLDS G1 Roy Halladay (no-hitter)

2005 ALCS G3 Jon Garland

Fewest hits allowed in first two games of a postseason series:
2019 NLCS Nationals: 4

2025 NLCS Dodgers: 5

1906 WS Cubs: 5

The Dodgers are the second team (2016 Blue Jays) to not throw a CG in the regular season and then throw one in that postseason 
But TOR's CG was a loss and only 8 IP
So the Dodgers are the first to do so in a win 

h/t @Spokes_Murphy

OptaSTATS

Since ERA became official in both leagues in 1913, only one MLB pitcher has had a 6-start span at any point (reg or post) with:

5-0 or better record

sub-1.00 ERA

50+ strikeouts

15 or fewer hits allowed

That pitcher is Blake Snell over his last 6 starts (3 reg, 3 post).

Blake Snell of the Dodgers is the first MLB pitcher to face the minimum through 8.0 innings of a postseason game since Don Larsen in his 1956 perfect game.

Jorge Polanco of the Mariners is the first player in MLB history to have a go-ahead hit in the 5th inning or later in 3 consecutive postseason games.

Blake Snell has won his last four postseason games, with more strikeouts than innings pitched in each game. It's the longest such streak in MLB postseason history.

Jacob Misiorowski of the Brewers is the second rookie in MLB history to earn a win without starting in each of the first two games of his postseason career, joining Francisco Rodriguez, who did so with the Angels in 2002.

This Tigers-Mariners Game 5 is the fourth winner-take-all game in MLB postseason history to go 12+ innings, joining Rockies over Cubs (2018 WC, 13 inn), Royals over A's (2014, WC, 12) and Senators over Giants (1924, WS Gm7, 12).

Kerry Carpenter is the first MLB player to reach base five times and hit a home run in a winner-take-all postseason game since Babe Ruth in 1926 (World Series Game 7).

Tarik Skubal is the first player in MLB history to strike out 13 batters in a game twice in the same postseason.