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-5 posts tagged "MLB Wild Card"
Jake Miller | Tuesday, October 3, 2023
One of my favorite aspects about Major League Baseball is the 162-game season. Each game has a very marginal effect on the team’s overall performance, but at the end of the regular season, often, one game is all that separates two teams. Baseball is kind of like the stock market. With such a long season,
John Kalemkerian | Monday, October 4, 2021
I’m sure whoever once said that the MLB season is a marathon, not a sprint had good intentions. But that person clearly never witnessed the mayhem that has been the last two weeks of baseball. From two 105+ win teams racing to avoid a winner-takes-all wild card game to the enticing potential for a five-way
Andrew McGuinness | Tuesday, September 29, 2020
We made it. There were times when it looked like coronavirus would end the season prematurely, times when the owners’ and players’ greed threatened having a season at all and probably times where your favorite team looked like they might not make it here. But in the end, we have reached the 2020 MLB postseason.
Ryan Kolakowski | Friday, September 28, 2018
This is going to come down to game 162. Shoot, in the National League West and the National League Central, it might even come down to game 163. On September 1, 2018, The Chicago Cubs held a 4.5-game lead on the St. Louis Cardinals and a 5-game lead on the Milwaukee Brewers. On the same
Joe Everett | Friday, October 6, 2017
Two weekends ago, I wrote a column arguing that the home stretch of the regular season would be chock-full of exciting baseball as teams fought tooth and nail for playoff berths and the schedule hurtled towards postseason baseball. That never really materialized. That three-team race for the NL Central crown? The Cubs ran away with