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Welcome to the 2022 National League Championship Series, and if these were the two teams you had expected would be here, please tell us who wins the next Powerball drawing. That this series does not have the Mets, Dodgers or Braves does not mean it’s lacking in star power; it does, after all, have Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, J.T. Realmuto, Manny Machado, Aaron Nola, Kyle Schwarber, Josh Hader and so on. It’s got two fan bases absolutely starved to get back to the World Series, and one of these teams will deliver on that promise.

But before they get there, they have to clear one more hurdle. They have to get through the NLCS. After getting through two rounds of playoffs so far, that should be easy, right? Far from it. Let’s see which team has the advantage, position by position.

Cleveland hasn’t won a postseason game when facing elimination since Game 6 of the 1997 World Series, losing its last 10 — an MLB record.

MLB.com polled its reporters and analysts for their NLCS predictions, asking which team will win, how many games the series will last and who will be named NLCS MVP.

Since they were kids in Baton Rouge, La., Austin and Aaron Nola have had a typical sibling rivalry. Now one of them will get to play in the World Series … and the other one will have to watch.

The 2022 Hank Aaron Award finalists were announced by Major League Baseball on Monday, with eight players from the American League and eight players from the National League reaching the final round of voting.

Download MLB Play and take your best cuts with MLB Base Chase! This daily prediction game is super simple — just pick three hitters that you think will tally the most total bases that day. Score the most total bases in a single postseason day and you could win a cool $50,000.

MLB Tonight is live before and after today’s ALDS Game 5 and NLCS Game 1. Plus, MLB Network will air the Guardians-Yankees winner-take-all showdown exclusively in Spanish presented by T-Mobile at 4 p.m. ET.

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