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The 2016 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2016 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 2016 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 postseason played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles. As both teams finished with identical 89–73 records, a tiebreaker was used to determine the host team.
The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season. The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians , the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
The Braves dropped to an MLB-worst 9–28 record after an 8–5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brian Snitker, manager of Atlanta's Triple-A Gwinnett Braves, replaced González as the team interim manager through the end of the season. González was at the helm from 2011 and compiled an overall record of 434–413 during his tenure as Atlanta's ...
Fox aired eight weeks of baseball on Saturday night leading up to the 2016 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which also aired on Fox. Fox then televised Saturday afternoon games for the last four weeks of the regular season. Fox Sports 1 televised games on Tuesday nights and Saturdays, both during the afternoon and night.
Meanwhile, Darvish gave up only five hits through five innings; however, four of those hits were home runs (a two-run home run to Troy Tulowitzki in the second after a leadoff walk, then three home runs in the fifth to Kevin Pillar, Ezequiel Carrera and Edwin Encarnacion), which tied the MLB playoff record for most home runs given up by a ...
This comeback would be even more difficult since the Cubs have to claim the final two games on the road - last done by the Pirates in 1979.
The 2016 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2016 postseason pitting the fourth-seeded Toronto Blue Jays against the second-seeded Cleveland Indians for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.