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The 2020 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2020 season.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league played only a 60-game season, and an expanded 16-team postseason tournament began on September 29, with games of all but the first round being played at neutral sites.
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 ...
The 2020 American League Division Series were two best-of-five-games series in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) expanded 2020 postseason to determine participating teams in the 2020 American League Championship Series. Those matchups were:
The league championship series and the World Series are each a 2-3-2 format: The higher seed hosts the first two games, the lower seed hosts Games 3, 4 and 5 (if necessary), and the higher seed ...
Beginning with the 2012 season, a second wild card team was added, and the two wild card teams play a single-game playoff to determine which team would play in the ALDS. 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 ...
The 2020 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's 2020 postseason between the two American League Division Series winners, the defending American League Champion and sixth-seeded Houston Astros and the top-seeded Tampa Bay Rays, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2020 World Series.
This round is a best-of-five game format, with the higher seed hosting Games 1 and 2, the lower seed hosting Games 3 and (if necessary) Game 4. The higher seed would play host to the deciding Game ...
Explaining what's new and different about the expanded 2020 MLB postseason format.