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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 ...
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.
For the 2020 Major League Baseball season only, there was an expanded playoff format, owing to an abbreviated 60-game regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight teams qualified from the National League: the top two teams in each division plus the next two best records among the remaining teams.
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New York Mets players celebrate after their victory over the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Monday that clinched a wild-card playoff berth.
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Most major collegiate baseball conferences with a double-elimination format send only the top eight teams, or a mix of top teams plus the winners of a single-elimination qualifier tournament, to their conference tournament. The NCAA baseball and softball tournaments have used the format since its inception for regional and College World Series ...
D 3 3rd place in District tournament D• 4th place in District tournament D 5th or 6th place in District tournament; 1975 through 1998. Regional tournaments consisted of 4-team or 6-team double elimination brackets. Depending on how the tournament played out, there could be two teams tying for 3rd place, or separate 3rd and 4th place teams.