The Los Angeles Dodgers are in wait-and-see mode on whether Corey Seager will be on their roster for the World Series, which begins Tuesday.

Seager missed the NLCS against the Chicago Cubs because of a bad back. He has been working out in Los Angeles.

He injured his back while sliding into a base in the final game of the NLDS.

"For him, the biggest hurdle is we're going to have some pitchers throwing in the next couple of days, some live arms," Dave Roberts said Saturday. "He's going to hang in there and take some swings. Take some ground balls as well. Just simulating a game against a live pitcher will be telling."

Michael Brantley will be out at least four months following surgery on his ankle. Brantley initially injured his ankle while playing left field on August 8th.

Brantley missed 50 games over the final two months of the season.

Brantley's surgery could affect whether the Indians pick up a $12 million contract option.

Brantley was an All-Star in 2017.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi lifted his team's ALCS Game 2 starter, Luis Severino, because he believed the pitcher was hurt, but Severino and the team's doctors say that Severino was not injured.

"I wanted to go out there and pitch," Severino said.

The Dodgers have left shortstop Corey Seager off their roster for the National League Championship Series due to an injured back, the team announced Saturday.

Seager had missed workouts for three consecutive days because of what manager Dave Roberts described as a "muscular issue." in his back.

Edwin Encarnacion believes he will be in the lineup for the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night when they take on the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the ALDS.

Encarnacion has missed the last two games of the series, both Cleveland losses, after landing awkwardly while retreating to second base on a line-drive double play in Game 2.

"I feel very good," he said. "I ran, I hit, and did everything we deemed necessary to evaluate if I can play tomorrow. Me being in the lineup tomorrow is what we all want; it's what I want. Tomorrow I'm coming in early to do my treatment and follow up and do everything I did today in order to be ready for the game."

The Washington Nationals are sticking with Tanner Roark for Wednesday's Game 4 against the Chicago Cubs.

Roark was originally scheduled to start the game, which was postponed because of weather on Tuesday. Stephen Strasburg would be pitching on regular four days' rest, but he's ill.

According to Dusty Baker, several Nationals are sick.

"A lot of my team is under the weather with the change of weather, and the air conditioning in the hotel, and the air conditioning here," he said. "It's just this time of the year for mold around Chicago -- I think it's mold. I mean, I have it, too."

The Nationals will look to force a Game 5 against the Cubs beginning at 4:08 p.m. ET at Wrigley Field.

Indians slugger Edwin Encarnacion is hoping to play again this postseason after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle during Game 2 of the ALDS against the Yankees.

Manager Terry Francona said Encarnacion probably won't start Game 3 on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, "but he's not been ruled out either."

The Boston Red Sox have added Chris Young to their ALDS roster to replace the injured Eduardo Nunez.

Nunez, who was back in the lineup for Game 1 against the Houston Astros on Thursday after missing all but one of the final 20 regular-season games, had to be carried off the field in the first inning after aggravating a sprained ligament in his right knee.

"We did a lot of treatment, a lot of simulated games, we did everything we can to be ready," he said. "We obviously know now my knee's not ready yet."

Nunez will be eligible to return later this postseason.

One day after exiting early from his final postseason tuneup with a leg injury, Max Scherzer's status for the beginning of the National League Division Series is uncertain.

Scherzer confirmed on Sunday that he suffered a hamstring injury in the fourth inning of Saturday's game against the Pirates, but he said an MRI shows that he just tweaked it.

Nationals ace Max Scherzer was pulled from his final regular-season start Saturday night while tuning up for the playoffs because of a right hamstring cramp.

He left Nationals Park to get a precautionary MRI on the hamstring, according to a team spokesperson.

"We took him out for precaution," Washington manager Dusty Baker said after his team's 4-1 loss to the Pirates. "We gotta make it to the playoffs healthy. So we thought it was better that we make that move, the precautionary move, to get him ready.''