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Here's a full look at the MLB playoff picture: (Through games played Sept. 16) AL wild card standings. Top three reach playoffs. Baltimore Orioles (84-66): + 5 games. Kansas City Royals (82-69 ...
MLB's wild-card races are heating up entering the final week of the 2024 season. ... "We're having a blast," said Tigers All-Star outfielder Riley Greene, part of his first pennant race. "This is ...
Here's a full look at the MLB postseason picture: AL wild card standings. Top three reach playoffs. Baltimore Orioles (86-68): +5 games. Kansas City Royals (82-72): +1 game. Minnesota Twins (81-73)
The Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is the annual playoff elimination tournament held to determine the champion of MLB in the United States and Canada. Since 2022, the postseason for each league—American and National—consists of two best-of-three Wild Card Series contested by the lowest-seeded division winner and the three wild card teams, two best-of-five Division Series (LDS ...
October 6 – The Detroit Tigers defeat the Chicago White Sox, 7–0, to win the American League pennant on the last day of the season. October 8 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the New York Giants, 4–2, in the make-up of the "Merkle Boner" game, giving the Cubs the National League pennant.
The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship—the pennant—of MLB's National League (NL). This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League (AL).
The winner of the NLCS wins the NL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the American League's (AL) Championship Series. The NLCS began in 1969 as a best-of-five playoff and used this format until 1985, when it changed to a best-of-seven format.
The current AL pennant holders are the New York Yankees, who beat the Cleveland Guardians for the pennant on October 19, 2024. In 1969, the AL split into two divisions, [ 4 ] and the teams with the best records in each division played one another in the five-game ALCS to determine the pennant winner, who received (and continues to receive) the ...