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A "wild card" rule was used in the 1981 season after a players' strike wiped out the "middle third" of the season. The owners decided that the winners (in each division) of each "half" of the abbreviated season would make the playoffs, with the caveat that if the same team won both halves then that division's team with the second-best record from the second half would enter the playoffs as a ...
The Wild Card round was initially introduced in 2012 as a single-game playoff between two wild-card teams in each league, with the winner advancing to the Division Series. With the adoption of MLB's new collective bargaining agreement in November 2011, baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced that a new playoff system would begin within the ...
The number of wild card qualifiers was expanded to two per conference in 1978 – the divisional winners were granted a bye week while the wild card teams, seeded #4 and #5, played each other in a "wild card game" with the #4 seed having home field advantage. Since there were two wild card games, one per conference, the phrase "wild card round ...
Major League Baseball's pennant race is going down to the wire. ... with a number of playoff spots still up in the air. ... NL wild card standings. San Diego Padres (86-65): +3.5 games ...
The National League wild card picture is down to three teams vying for two spots. The Mets and Diamondbacks are currently in position to advance, but the Atlanta Braves (86-71) are a mere half ...
AL wild card standings. Top three reach playoffs. Baltimore Orioles (90-71): +4 games – clinched postseason spot Sept. 25. Detroit Tigers (86-74): +1 game – clinched postseason spot Sept. 27.
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 NLDS. 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 .
This is a list of division champions (since 1969) and wild-card winners (since 1994) ... Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second ...