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The 2000 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff ... NL East champions (3–4 head-to-head record vs. STL) [8 ... and in the Wild Card Game of the ...
In addition, the wild card guaranteed that the team with the second-best record in each league would qualify for the playoffs, even if they were in the same division with the team having the best record. As the 1994 postseason was canceled due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, 1995 was the first postseason with a wild card team.
The 2000 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 2000 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three NL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.
A "wild card" rule was used in the 1981 season after a players' strike wiped out the "middle third" of the season. The owners decided that the winners (in each division) of each "half" of the abbreviated season would make the playoffs, with the caveat that if the same team won both halves then that division's team with the second-best record from the second half would enter the playoffs as a ...
The 2000 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2000 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title. [1]A then-record 5,693 home runs were hit during the regular season in 2000 (the record was broken in 2017, when 6,105 home runs were hit). [1]
The postseason format starts with wild card series featuring the three wild card playoff teams from each league, along with the lowest-seeded division record. At this stage, the higher seed will ...
The 2000 National League Championship Series (NLCS), to determine the champion of the National League in Major League Baseball’s 2000 postseason, was played between the Central Division champion and second-seeded St. Louis Cardinals and the wild card New York Mets. This series pitted a pair of teams that were former division rivals. [1]