The Dodgers turned the season around late by adding better players to the roster, and for the start of the playoffs, they did it again.

Javier Vazquez will make the Game 1 start for the White Sox against the Rays in the American League Division Series, as announced by manager Ozzie Guillen after Tuesday's 1-0 victory over Minnesota in the tiebreaker to decide the American League Central crown.

One month after breaking a bone in his right wrist, White Sox left fielder Carlos Quentin is holding out hope that he will be able to play in the postseason.

Familiar foes have plenty of experience

The last-to-first Rays are set to take on the bounce-back White Sox in an ALDS that pits two teams that couldn't be more different.

Halos bring power to postseason

Two teams from Chicago and two from Los Angeles are in the 2008 postseason.

Bulldog Lackey to take bite out of Sox

Vladimir Guerrero, hindered off and on this season by inflammation in his right knee, will serve as the Angels' designated hitter in Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Red Sox on Wednesday night at Angel Stadium.

The Rays will face the White Sox in the ALDS, after Chicago won a tiebreaker for the AL Central crown on Tuesday. Game 1 is set for 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday at Tropicana Field.

Beckett shows signs of improvement

Drought over, Bay excited for playoffs

John Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Tuesday. The procedure, performed by the club's medical director, Dr. David Altchek, and team physician Struan Coleman, removed a lesion from the back of Maine's shoulder socket.

They boast 525 pounds between them, more than a quarter-ton of power-hitting baseball brawn. Few stadiums have been large enough for either of them. Yet somehow this week, however impractical, the Phillies' Ryan Howard and the Brewers' Prince Fielder will both squeeze into the smallish dimensions of Citizens Bank Park during the National League Division Series, knowing that there's room for only one of them in October.