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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.
Two-way intradivision tie-breaker, with both teams already guaranteed a playoff spot with one as the division champion and the other as a wildcard. The division title is awarded in the following priority: The team with the best record in head-to-head play. The team with the best overall record ignoring interleague play.
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.
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.
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 ...
The 2013 American League Wild Card tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2013 regular season, played between the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays to determine the second participant in the 2013 American League (AL) Wild Card Game. It was played at the Globe Life Park in Arlington on September 30, 2013.
Various figures from around the MLB have criticized commissioner Rob Manfred’s suggestion of a Golden At-Bat rule, which would allow managers to send anyone they like to the plate once per game.
1948 American League tie-breaker game; 1951 National League tie-breaker series; 1959 National League tie-breaker series; 1962 National League tie-breaker series; 1978 American League East tie-breaker game; 1980 National League West tie-breaker game; 1995 American League West tie-breaker game; 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game