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Start times have been set for the first four days of the Major League Baseball postseason, highlighted by what should be at least seven or eight consecutive hours of quadrupleheader action on Saturday.Turner Sports will televise all four best-of-five Division Series for the fifth year in a row, primarily on TBS and moving Saturday's Rays-Rangers American League Division Series Game 2 to TNT.It al football live l starts Friday with both AL series. The Rays and Rangers -- the same two clubs that got it started one year ago -- will open at 5:07 p.m. ET in Arlington. That game will be followed by Tigers at Yankees at 8:37 ET, a rematch of the series five years ago taken in four games by Detroit.On Saturday, settle in because it will be a baseball feast. Milwaukee hosts the D-backs at 2:07 p.m. ET in Game 1 football live of their National League Division Series. The Cardinals and Phillies open their NLDS at Citizens Bank Park at 5:07 ET. TNT will carry Rays-Rangers Game 2 at 7:07 ET due to that overlap, and then TBS will air Game 2 between the Tigers and Yankees starting at 8:37 ET.Sunday is a travel day for the AL clubs, and both NLDS Game 2s will be played that day. It will start with D-backs at Brewers at 4:37 football live p.m. ET, followed by Cardinals at Phillies at 8:07 ET.Monday will be the first opportunity for a possible sweep. The Rangers will visit the Rays at Tropicana Field in Game 3 starting at 5:07 p.m., followed by Yankees at Tigers from Comerica Park at 8:37 ET.For fans interested in interactive companion coverage of the TBS and TNT broadcasts, MLB.com has launched Postseason.TV subscriptions. They are football live $3.99 for the ALDS and NLDS, or $5.99 for both of those plus the NL Championship Series, which also will be televised by TBS.Turner Sports would love to get some more length this year than usual. Short series have been the norm in their first four years of postseason broadcasting, with the Rangers and Rays the only Division Series that went the distance last year as Texas advanced.As part of the football live yearly rotation specified under the MLB broadcasting contracts, TBS will be televising the NLCS while FOX will handle the ALCS. FOX will broadcast the 107th World Series. football live
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