Previewing The Baseball Playoffs

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October 05, 2012

The baseball playoffs start Friday with wild card games in the National and American leagues. In the AL, the Baltimore Orioles play the Texas Rangers.

In the NL, the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals play the Atlanta Braves.

The one-game winners will move onto the next round of the playoffs against the divisional champions in each league: the New York Yankees, Oakland A's and Detroit Tigers in the AL and the Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals in the NL.

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Guests:

Joel Sherman, who covers baseball for the New York Post
Joe Lemire, reporter for Sports Illustrated

This segment aired on October 5, 2012.