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Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures are used by Major League Baseball (MLB) to break ties between teams for qualification and seeding into the MLB postseason. The procedures in use since 2022 , when a third wild card team and resulting Wild Card Series were added for both the American League and National League , are outlined below.
The Chicago White Sox celebrate after defeating the Minnesota Twins 1–0 to win the 2008 American League Central. A tie-breaker was required in Major League Baseball (MLB) when two or more teams were tied at the end of the regular season for a postseason position such as a league pennant (prior to the introduction of the League Championship Series in 1969), a division title, or a wild card spot.
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MLB tiebreakers. Major League Baseball’s tiebreaking procedures are fairly simple. If two teams, regardless of division, finish with the same record, the team that won the season series wins a ...
With the current set-up of Major League Baseball divisions, there are three possible scenarios. The top two teams have the same record, and one of the teams is in the division with the wild-card. In this case, the team from the division that also contains the wild card berth winner becomes the second seed and the other team becomes the first seed.
1 2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, 2018 National League West tie-breaker game
That system has been used for weekend games at the Triple-A level. MLB umpire Clint Vondrak and Gary Sanchez of the Milwaukee Brewers crouch behind home plate and wait for a pitch during a game ...
One-game playoff games appended to a Major League Baseball season to break a tie in the regular-season standings. This does not include "winner-takes-all" final games of a postseason series, e.g., the seventh game of a best-of-seven series.