Over in the American League, the Houston Astros topped 100 wins as well. They won 111 games for one of the best seasons in franchise history.
The Dodgers have been dominant all season with a lineup that includes Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, Will Smith and Freddie Freeman. Some of the games originally scheduled for the first week of the season were moved to the end, meaning a season that was originally scheduled to end on Oct. Baseball players and owners salvaged the usual 162-game season, but to do that, they had to move opening day from March 31 to April 7. It delayed the beginning of spring training and pushed the regular season back about a week.
That’s mostly because of the sport’s labor strife that resulted in a work stoppage over the winter. October’s postseason festivities will bleed into November before a champion is crowned. The wild-card round will feature four series over the upcoming weekend: Rays-Guardians, Blue Jays-Mariners, Padres-Mets and Cardinals-Phillies. That’s the Astros and Yankees in the American League and the Dodgers and Braves in the National League. The top two teams with the best records in each league get a bye and don’t have to play in the wild-card round. The three wild-card teams in each league are the teams with the best record that didn’t win their division. Six teams each from the American League and National League qualified for the postseason, including the three division winners in each league. The best-of-three wild card format is a change from the sudden death one-game format that’s been in place since 2012. Here’s a little more information about baseball’s bulked-up postseason: The division series will be best-of-five, while the league championship series and World Series will be best-of-seven. The first team that gets two wins advances.Īfter that, the playoffs will be business as usual. MLB’s new wild-card format is similar to the one currently used in college baseball for the NCAA Super Regional round: The three games will be scheduled on three consecutive days from Friday to Sunday at the higher seed’s field. San Diego’s newly acquired slugger Juan Soto against the 101-win New York Mets? Ageless star Albert Pujols and the Cardinals against Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and the Phillies?īuckle up, they’re happening this weekend. The expanded postseason has produced some spicy early postseason matchups. The postseason begins with a field of 12 teams - up from last year’s 10 - and includes a best-of-three format for the opening wild-card round. The playoffs are here, with the first games played today. Major League Baseball’s postseason has a little more heft this season. 8: Tampa Bay at Cleveland (McKenzie 11-11), 12:07 p.m.
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