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In Major League Baseball, teams typically play multiple games against each other; if one team wins all the games in that series, it is considered a "series sweep", or simply, a "sweep". In many cases, fans of the team in the favored position, when all but one contest in the current series have been won, will bring brooms (either real brooms or ...
When the series shifted to Arlington for Game 3, the Rangers possessed a 2–1 lead going into the eighth, but the Rays went on a 5–1 run through the eighth and ninth innings to win and avoid a sweep. In Game 4, the Rays jumped out to an early lead and did not relinquish it, sending the series back to Tampa for Game 5.
In Los Angeles, the first two games were split by both teams – the Mets overcame a 2–0 Dodgers lead in the top of the ninth to win by a 3–2 score in Game 1, and in Game 2, the Dodgers drove Mets' starting pitcher David Cone from the mound after scoring the game's first five runs, winning 6–3 to even the series. When the series moved to ...
The Arizona Diamondbacks, who like the Braves and Mets finished 89-73 but lost tiebreakers to both teams, ensuring their reign as NL champions ends after one year. A look at the playoff field:
The Rangers stole the first two games in Toronto, winning by two runs in Game 1, then prevailing by two runs again in Game 2 after an ugly fourteen-inning affair. When the series shifted to Arlington, however, the Blue Jays would take Game 3 convincingly to avoid a sweep, then took Game 4 by an 8–4 score to send the series back to Toronto.
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One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.
In the history of these leagues, teams that were down 2–0 in a series have come back to win the series 17 times; 10 times in MLB, 6 times in the NBA, and once in the NHL. The most recent instance was accomplished by the New York Yankees of the MLB in the 2017 American League Division Series .