The League Championship Series’ are set to begin on Sunday and Monday. The ALCS will kick off in Houston on Sunday night, while the NLCS will start Monday night in Philadelphia. While the Astros are making their seventh consecutive trip to the ALCS, there are some notable contenders shockingly missing. The four teams with the best records in baseball all stunned their fans with early exits from the 2023 playoffs. Three of these teams, the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles, had 100-win seasons and the Tampa Bay Rays fell just short of that mark with 99.