Major League Baseball’s Wild Card Game is a unique way to start the playoffs. This year’s two games, the New York Yankees vs. the Houston Astros in the American League and the Chicago Cubs vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League, clearly represent what is good and what is e...
Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Popularity and cultural impact Writing in 1919, philosopherMorris Raphael Cohendescribed baseball asAmerica's national religion.[140]In the words of sports columnistJayson Stark, ...
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The postseason will begin with four best-of-three Wild Card Series in each league (so eight total), with the higher-seeded team hosting all three games. The winners of those series advance to the best-of-five Division Series. The winners of the Division Series advance to the best-of-...
When it comes to great Brewers facial hair, you really can’t go wrong with any Thomas card. This one was submitted by Abraham Puder of Madison, Wis. It depicts Thomas staring through a fence, presumably contemplating the mysteries of the universe. The profile shot shows off Thomas’ wildma...
The post season generally begins in the first week in October with the Division Championship Series -- four separate series of games, two in each league. The division champion with the best record usually plays the wild card from its own league in a best-of-five series, and the remaining ...
betting decisions. Typically, better teams score more runs. Seven of last season’s 10 postseason clubs were also among the ten highest-scoring teams in baseball. However, exceptions exist, such as the New York Yankees, who claimed a wild card spot despite sporting MLB’s 19th-ranked offence...
Game 2 of the American League Wild Card Series between the Tampa Bay Rays vs Cleveland Guardians will go down as one of the longest MLB playoff games ever. It also achieved its own place in history, becoming the first postseason game ever that went scoreless through the first 14 innings. ...
and justifies the focus on the playoff drought. Even I have been a bit dismissive about ending the drought through a newly-expanded wild card while the team’s line-up still isn’t elite. This felt like sneaking in the back door as opposed to winning 100 games and running away with the...
Baseball’s back … kind of! Sure, the games don’t mean anything in the standings, but c’mon, how much does one game out of 162 really mean during the season, too? Honestly, that’s kind of the beauty of it! The players are out there, they’re swinging bats, announcers are tal...