Before he started the opener of the Cardinals’ National League Division Series against the Nats, right-hander Adam Wainwright talked like a man who was just happy to be there.

The bedlam that broke out in the Bronx on Wednesday with Raul Ibanez’s pair of home runs to lift the Yankees to a 3-2 win in 12 innings over the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series spilled over into social media.

If the Orioles are in a save situation for Game 4 of the American League Division Series on Thursday night, closer Jim Johnson will get the ball.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy chose the steady Brandon Crawford over the hot Joaquin Arias at shortstop for Game 5, and Crawford rewarded that choice with two fine defensive plays and an RBI triple.

Reds starter Mat Latos left no room for nuance when discussing the team’s season-ending loss to the Giants in the National League Division Series.

Oakland announced that the team will remove the tarps that covered the seats on the third deck of the main grandstand for Games 1 and 2, opening up 11,698 new seats for a potential ALCS matchup against the Yankees or Orioles.

In the relatively few words he spoke regarding his father — who passed away last week — and his mother, Joe Girardi showed a depth of feeling that many could not have otherwise seen. He was doing the very best a man could do in his job at Yankee Stadium, doing his best in both triumph and tragedy.

No team ever wants to be on the brink of elimination, but being there before — and coming out alive — certainly can’t hurt should the situation arise again.

Fresh off a dramatic and excruciating extra-innings loss in Game 3, the Orioles edged the Yankees in a 2-1, 13-inning win Thursday night to force a decisive Game 5 in New York.

Derek Jeter’s streak of consecutive postseason games played at shortstop came to an end at 155 on Thursday night.

Jerry Girardi, the father of Yankees manager Joe Girardi, died Saturday at age 81. Joe Girardi will manage in Game 4 of the AL Division Series on Thursday.

Dave Stewart won three rings with three different clubs and made it to five Fall Classics. On Thursday, “Stew” came to the MLB Fan Cave in Greenwich Village as part of Major League Baseball’s “Legends are Born in October” postseason marketing campaign.

George Foster tossed the ceremonial first pitch before Game 5 of the NLDS between the Reds and the Giants. Incidentally, Thursday also marked the 40th anniversary of his pennant-clinching run in the NLCS.

New England native Brad Ausmus, who spent 18 seasons in the big leagues as a catcher, will interview for Boston’s managerial opening, likely at some point next week.

What the Giants did at Great American Ball Park, in the hours and days following Bruce Bochy’s pregame pep talk when San Francisco trailed the NLDS two games to none, will be remembered for a long while.

If Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez took anything out of his National League Division Series Game 1 outing, it was that the defending champion Cardinals cannot be underestimated.

Hunter Pence’s rally cry — “Look into each other eyes! Play for each other! Win each moment! Win each inning!” — became the Giants’ rallying cry when they needed it most.