The Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins each clinched playoff berths on Wednesday night.

Chicago defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 to lock up the National League Central title. It's the third-straight playoff appearance for the Cubs.

Minnesota, coming off a 100-loss season, clinched when the Los Angeles Angels fell to the Chicago White Sox.

The Twins are the first team to make the playoffs the year after a 100-loss season.

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 9-2 on Tuesday night to lock up home-field advantage throughout the National League playoffs.

The Dodgers improved to 101-57 with the win.

They will open a best-of-five Division Series on Oct. 6 against the winner of the NL wild-card game, which will be hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Miami Marlins 3-2 on Sunday to secure home-field advantage in the National League Wild Card game.

J.D. Martinez notched the game-winning hit for the Diamondbacks, who acquired him on July 31 from the Detroit Tigers.

"This isn't it," he said. "They only get bigger from here. In my opinion, we are not in the playoffs yet. If we win that wild card, then we are in it."

The Diamondbacks, who won only 69 games a year ago but are 90-66 this season, were assured a playoff berth earlier in the day, when the St. Louis Cardinals lost at the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers was beaten at home by the Chicago Cubs.

The Cleveland Indians' 22-game win streak was snapped on Friday with a 4-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals.

The Indians hadn't lost a game since Aug. 23.

"They've been so supportive," said Terry Francona, who led his team out of the dugout to return the love to the crowd. "The atmosphere around here is incredible and I think our players wanted to show their appreciation. It's by no means the last game of the year or anything like that, it's just been pretty incredible how they've reacted and we just wanted to show our appreciation because we don't take it for granted.

"I don't think anything is over."

The Indians set a new league mark and came within four of matching the overall record held by the 1916 New York Giants, a 26-game string.