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After a 29-year exile from October, the Kansas City Royals are on the verge of sweeping past the Los Angeles Angels and storming into the American League Championship Series. 

The Royals are taking apart the Angels, the team with the best record in the regular season, thanks to a combination of unreal speed, perfectly timed home runs and lights-out pitching. With Game 3 of the American League Division Series looming at 6:37 p.m. ET on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, the Angels are sitting in an 0-2 hole. 

Keep it right here for all the live updates of the much-anticipated Cardinals vs. Dodgers Game 2 matchup. Who will come out on top in a hotly contested NLDS? We'll be the first to let you know!

SCORE UPDATE: Cardinals 0 - 2 Dodgers, Bottom 6th

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Home teams have failed to take advantage of the edge they worked all season to secure in the early going of the playoffs. That's true in both National League Division Series, which saw the road clubs grab 1-0 leads Friday.

Losing Game 1, even at home, is no big deal in the two series that follow. In this round, however, it puts a boatload of pressure on the higher seeds due to the best-of-five format. They don't want to head out on the road needing to win both games just to force a deciding fifth contest.

Outfielder Michael Morse probably couldn't believe his eyes when he saw himself in a Washington Nationals uniform in the Washington Post's recap of Game 1 of the 2014 National League Division Series.

If you need proof of how fickle and unpredictable baseball can be, all you have to do is look at what happened on Friday with Clayton Kershaw getting lit up, Kansas City getting an extra-inning homer for the second-straight day and Delmon Young getting another big postseason hit. 

The first two days of the American and National League Division Series have lived up to the expectations of the fans, but with Day 3 of the MLB playoffs schedule full of intense action, the anticipation continues to climb.

SCORE UPDATE: Giants 2 - 1 Nationals, Bottom 18th (SF leads NLDS 1-0)

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Fact: Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw is the first player to allow eight earned runs, zero walks and have 10 strikeouts in a postseason game.

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It's fair to say that Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals did not go as planned.

The best pitcher in the game and the likely NL MVP, Clayton Kershaw, faced off against another bona fide ace and true gamer in Adam Wainwright. All signs pointed to it being a classic pitcher's duel, but that couldn't have been further from the truth.

Both National League Division Series got underway Friday, with the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals each emerging victorious and taking 1-0 series leads in a pair of one-run games.

Saturday features all four Senior Circuit clubs battling it out once more, as the Nationals and Dodgers look to tie their series up before they take to the road.

Here's the information you'll need to view Saturday's contests as well as a preview of each game.