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The 2009 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2009 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 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 ...
In Game 2, the Cardinals held off a potential rally by the Diamondbacks to win 2–1, thanks to stellar pitching from relief pitcher Jason Isringhausen. When the series shifted to St. Louis, the Cardinals completed the sweep with a 6–3 victory in Game 3. The Diamondbacks would not return to the postseason again until 2007.
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.
This was the second postseason meeting between the Royals and Athletics. They last met in the ALDS in 1981, which the Athletics won in a sweep.The Athletics went up 7–3 going into the eighth inning, until the Royals rallied in the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings, scoring 4 runs to send the game into extra innings.
The Brewers would end up defeating the Diamondbacks in extra innings in Game 5 to advance to the NLCS. This was the first playoff series win by the Brewers since the 1982 ALCS, when the team was still in the American League. Both teams would meet again in the Wild Card Round in 2023, which was won by the Diamondbacks in a sweep.
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The two teams split the previous two meetings, in the 2017 ALDS (won by the Astros), and the 2018 ALCS (won by the Red Sox). In both instances, the winner was the eventual World Series champion. The Astros defeated the Red Sox in six games to advance to the World Series for the third time in five years. Both teams split the first two games in ...