The Dodgers will face the Cincinnati Reds in a National League wild-card series beginning Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.
The Reds qualified for the final spot in Major League Baseball’s postseason with the New York Mets’ 4-0 loss to the Miami Marlins Sunday in Miami, ending the Mets’ chances of finishing the season with a better record than the Reds.
Both teams finished the season 83-79, but Cincinnati received the National League’s third and final wild-card berth because it won the season series from New York, 4-2, the first tiebreaker.
The Reds lost to the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-2, in Milwaukee on Sunday, in a game completed 14 minutes before the Mets-Marlins game.
The Dodgers were 5-1 against Cincinnati this season, including 3-0 at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers-Reds wild-card series will begin Tuesday, with each of the first two games set to start at 6:08 p.m. Game time for Game 3, if necessary, will be announced Sunday night. The entire best-of-three series will be played at Dodger Stadium.
The winner will advance to face the Eastern Division champion Philadelphia Phillies, who received a bye into the division series round for having one of the two best records among the National League’s three division champions.