MLB READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP

There’s so much we don’t know about the Major League Baseball postseason to come. Like who will play whom. And where. And when. You know, the little things.

Put the Cubs and White Sox into the same, overstuffed barrel of big-league teams that went into the final couple of days of the regular season with division titles and wild-card playoff pairings still to be sorted out. We know all eight American League teams will be scheduled to play Tuesday. We know all 16 playoff teams will be scheduled to play Wednesday. And we’ve learned a 60-game regular season plus an expanded playoff field equals late-September chaos. Nothing wrong with that.

But we do know this: The Cubs, with Kyle Hendricks and Yu Darvish, and the Sox, with Lucas Giolito and Dallas Keuchel, are capable of beating any opponent in a best-of-three series. Why? We already told you. The answer is those four pitchers.

Hendricks threw a shutout in Game 1 of the season and likely will be on the hill for Game 1 of the playoffs. Giolito opened the season as the Sox’ No. 1 and — hello, no-no — has backed that up. Darvish has rewritten the script on his free-agent signing in 2018, and Keuchel has demonstrated from the get-go this season that he was worth the dough the Sox threw at him.

The big stage is ready. Pressure? What pressure? ‘‘Still no fans in the playoffs, right?’’ Darvish said. ‘‘I think [it won’t] feel any different.’’

We’ll see about that. Here’s what’s happening:

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