The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are the top two seeds in the 2024 baseball playoffs.

Network executives and advertisers must be dreaming of a renewal of their classic World Series rivalry (1977, 1978, 1981). Aaron Judge and Shohei Otani would slug it out and draw massive ratings.

The good news for everyone else, including the Cleveland Guardians, is that the Dodgers and Yankees are not dominant clubs.

In fact, no MLB team won 100 games this year. Last year, Texas (90 wins) met Arizona (84 wins) in the Fall Classic.

So anything can happen this October.

LET’S PLAY TWO … TODAY

Due to Hurricane Helene, the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves will play a doubleheader today at 1:10 p.m. after everyone else’s regular season has ended.

Arizona Diamondbacks fans will be glued to their televisions all day. If either team sweeps the doubleheader, that team and the Diamondbacks are in the playoffs.

If the Mets and Braves split the doubleheader, they are both in. Arizona is out.

San Diego and NL Central champion Milwaukee will host the wild card games on Tuesday in an ESPN doubleheader starting at 5:30 p.m.

The Dodgers and Phillies have the top two seeds and will play this rounds’ winners on the weekend.

AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS

The outlook is much clearer in the American League.

AL West champion Houston will host the red-hot Detroit Tigers on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. on ABC. I guess General Hospital will be closed that day.

In the other wild-card game, Baltimore will host Kansas City at 4 p.m. on ESPN 2.

Cleveland will play the Orioles-Royals series winner on Saturday. Tanner Bibee will start Game 1 for the Guardians.

The Guardians will have an entire week off because Sunday’s game was rained out. Poor Jose Ramirez was denied a chance to join the 40/40(40) Club.