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2021 MLB playoffs: Our predictions from the wild-card games through the World Series

The 2021 MLB playoffs begin Tuesday night with 10 teams hoping to raise this year's World Series trophy.

The San Francisco Giants enter October with Major League Baseball's best record, while their rivals in the National League West, the Los Angeles Dodgers, have hopes of becoming baseball's first repeat champions since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays have some unfinished business in the American League after falling to L.A. in last year's Fall Classic -- and, of course, there's that Yankees-Red Sox AL Wild Card showdown to start everything (8 p.