Scotty McCreery will perform the "Star-Spangled Banner" before the 107th World Series opener on Oct. 19, at either Miller Park, Chase Field, Busch Stadium or Citizens Bank Park — continuing a tradition of "American Idol" winners enjoying FOX's Major League Baseball stage.

While the Red Sox start the process of trying to fix all the things that led to their historic collapse at the end of the 2011 season, one question that bears asking is this: Will Theo Epstein return for a 10th season as general manager?

With the NLDS back to square one, the underdog Cardinals are suddenly looking like the favorites against the Phillies.

The Cardinals stunned the favored Phillies, 5-4, on Sunday night to even the National League Division Series after two games, and you can blame it on their legendary manager.

The never-say-die Cardinals pulled off a stunning win on Sunday night, overcoming an abbreviated and ineffective start from their ace for a 5-4 comeback win over the Phillies in Game 2 of the National League Division Series at Citizens Bank Park, tying the series as it heads back to Busch Stadium.

A series of questionable calls on pitches around the strike zone by home-plate umpire Jerry Meals early in the game had the Cardinals' batters shaking their heads and manager Tony La Russa unsuccessfully trying to bite his tongue in front of a national television audience.

Neither Milwaukee's Zack Greinke nor St. Louis' Chris Carpenter were experienced taking the mound on three days' rest, but both did so Sunday in the interest of improving their teams' National League Division Series prospects.

Staked to an early four-run lead as the Phillies sought a 2-0 advantage in the National League Division Series, Cliff Lee gave up five runs in six-plus innings. With the loss, he dropped to 0-3 with a 7.13 ERA in his past five postseason starts.

Jose Valverde was going to end it, one way or the other. Thankfully for the Tigers, it ended on a Robinson Cano groundout instead of a walk-off home run.

With each series now set to change sites after an eventful first weekend, Major League Baseball announced the remaining Turner Sports broadcast times for all four best-of-five Division Series — including another lavish quadruple-header.

Rookie Josh Collmenter enjoyed great success against the Brewers during the season, thanks in large part to his unorthodox pitching delivery, one the D-backs are counting on in Game 3 on Tuesday.

Shaun Marcum is not easily intimidated. Pitching away from the comforts of home has not been an issue in the slightest for the Brewers starter this season. That could bode well for pitching in the postseason.

D-backs second baseman Aaron Hill, the second batter of Sunday's Game 2 of the NLDS, lined a ball down the left-field line that hit off the wall for what would have been a double. Left-field umpire James Hoye, however, ruled the ball foul.

Max Scherzer allowed just two hits over six-plus shutout innings and Miguel Cabrera had three RBIs as the Tigers secured a 5-3 victory over the Yankees in New York on Sunday to earn a split of the first two games in their American League Division Series.

The Brewers stayed perfect in Zack Greinke's home starts, taking command of the National League Division Series with a flurry of sixth-inning small ball that included catcher Jonathan Lucroy's go-ahead squeeze bunt. It led to a 9-4 win over the D-backs in Game 2 and a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series.

Rain wiped out what was supposed to be a pulsating, edge-of-your-seat showdown after 1 1/2 innings in Friday night's ALDS Game 1. Now, Justin Verlander and CC Sabathia will face off in Game 3 and in pitcher-friendly Comerica Park.

Any questions about Miguel Cabrera's mental toughness are all but gone now, truncated by Cabrera's innocent sense of humor, erased by another MVP-type season and vanished as he thrives in the postseason — a stage he's as comfortable in as any other player in baseball.