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Both National League Division Series begin Saturday.
The Philadelphia Phillies face the Atlanta Braves in one best-of-five game series and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the other. The top two NL seeds, the Braves (first) and the Dodgers (second) received byes from the first round of playoffs and face the winners of the best-of-three Wild Card series played this week.
Read MoreOrioles pitcher Grayson Rodriguez is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Ezequiel Tovar of the Rockies became just the 13th player to win Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors in both games of a doubleheader since player tracking began in 1995.
Read MorePadres pitcher Yu Darvish is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Darvish struck out nine over six scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks, in the 4-0 win over the Rangers.
Read MoreBox-Toppers tracks who most helps their team win the most games. Using standard box score statistics, Box-Toppers uses a simple formula to determine a Player of the Game for each Major League Baseball game played. That player is the person who contributed most to his team’s win. Players earn Box-Toppers points for being named Player of the Game and can earn bonus points for being Player of the Day or top player or batter in their league for the day.