2025 Major League Baseball postseason

The 2025 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2025 season. In each of the two leagues—National and American—the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best win-loss records) qualified for the postseason, for a total of twelve teams. First was the best-of-three-games Wild Card Series, with the two division winners with the best records in each league getting a bye. Next was the best-of-five-games Division Series. The victors advanced to the best-of-seven-games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners, the champions of each league. These two teams played against each other in the 2025 World Series, which began on October 24. The postseason began on September 30, 2025, and ended on November 2, 2025, with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. The Dodgers repeated as World Series champions and won their ninth championship. They became the eighth franchise in MLB history to win back-to-back titles. The 2025 postseason was one of the most competitive in recent MLB history, with only two sweeps occurring across the entire bracket. Two Division Series, as well as the ALCS and World Series, all went to winner-take-all elimination games. It was also the first time during the Wild Card Series era (post-2021) that three of the four series went to a decisive Game 3.