Dominant starting pitching and a few timely hits have the Houston Astros on the verge of the American League Championship Series. The Astros can polish off a three-game sweep in the AL Division Series when they send another former Cy Young Award winner to the mound in Game 3 at the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.

The Atlanta Braves were all but defeated in Game 3 of the National League Division Series and seemed certain to enter Monday’s Game 4 against the host St. Louis Cardinals facing elimination, but Dansby Swanson and Adam Duvall came through to push the team within one win of its first appearance in the NL Championship Series in 18 years. With Atlanta down to its final out on Sunday, Swanson and Duvall delivered back-to-back run-scoring hits as the Braves rallied for a stunning 3-1 victory.

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ offense came alive at just the right moment and gave the team a chance to move one step closer to its ultimate goal when it visits the Washington Nationals on Monday for Game 4 of their National League Division Series. The Dodgers scored seven times with two outs in the sixth inning on Sunday en route to a 10-4 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.

The New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins are in very familiar territory as they head to Minneapolis on Monday for Game 3 of their best-of-five American League Division Series, an unfortunate scenario for the hosts. The Twins have dropped a record 15 consecutive postseason games - 12 of them to the Yankees -after being outscored 18-6 in dropping the first two contests of the series in New York.