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A packed playoff baseball schedule awaits this Friday, with four games set to run potentially continuously from about 2 o'clock until whenever the game that starts at 10:30 Eastern time ends. That is a lot of hours of baseball in a row. Maybe some of it will even be good.
Things were certainly good on Thursday, as both the Red Sox and Yankees lost. They now face 1-0 deficits in their best-of-five series against the Astros and Indians, respectively, but they surely won't be panicking. With a win today, either one will be right back on track.
Red Sox-Astros is scheduled to start at 2:05 and air on Fox Sports 1.
Yankees-Indians has a 5:00 scheduled start time for MLB Network.
The two National League games are set for later in the evening, both to air on TBS. Cubs-Nationals has the peculiarly specific scheduled start time of 7:31, with Diamondbacks-Dodgers going at 10:30.
Here are the Boston-Houston lineups, the only ones posted as of this writing:
Make it happen, Astros and Indians.