After six months of playing games almost every night, one could argue that the latest MLB postseason format serves more as a disadvantage to those who earned byes.

The ALDS rolls on Monday at 7:38 p.m. ET when the New York Yankees host the Kansas City Royals live on TBS from Yankee Stadium. The Yankees will look to move one step closer to the ALCS while the

KC lost a 6-5 slugfest at Yankee Stadium. Alex Verdugo hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning as New York took a 1-0 series lead. That followed a controversial call at second base in which the Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm, who scored the winning run, was called safe sliding into second and the play stood on a review.