This year's MLB division series is overflowing with intriguing regional rivalries, including a battle between the Cleveland Guardians and Detroit Tigers and a showdown between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets.
However, none of those teams have played each other in the postseason. This will be the third playoff series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres in the past five years, and it will be a doozy—the Padres finished just five games back of the first-place Dodgers in the NL West, the narrowest gap between the two teams in any of this round's matchups.
