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The Reds took Game 1 on the road by a 5–2 score to win their first postseason game since 1995. In Game 2, Bronson Arroyo outdueled San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner as the Reds blew out the Giants by a 9–0 score to take a 2–0 series lead, handing Bumgarner his worst postseason loss ever. When the series moved to Cincinnati, the Giants ...
On November 22, 2011, a new contract between Major League Baseball and its players union was ratified, and as a result, an expanded playoff format adding two clubs would be adopted no later than 2013 according to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. [2] The new format of the 2012 postseason to used the 1 game series of the Wild Card round ...
March 2 – Major League Baseball expands its playoff format to 10 teams for the 2012 season, adding a second wild card in each league. The decision establishes a new one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records. [7] March 16 – Andy Pettitte comes out of retirement to a $2.5 million deal with the New York ...
Through the 2022 postseason, every National League team has qualified as a wild card at least once, with the Philadelphia Phillies and San Diego Padres the last teams to do so. (However, the Padres did win the postseason wild card round in 2020, under MLB's modified playoff format that year, though not having the best record in the NL West ...
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For example, to indicate that the Seattle Mariners and Oakland A's are going to be in the 2013 playoffs, use the following: {{2013 AL West standings|highlight=Seattle Mariners,Oakland A's}} When the seeding of a team bound for the playoffs is known, use the |seeds= parameter to specify the team's seeding, in the format "<seed number>:<team name ...
The 2012 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2012 postseason pitting the third-seeded San Francisco Giants against the defending World Series champion and fifth-seeded St. Louis Cardinals for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series.
The series used the 2–3 format (three consecutive games at home for the team with home field advantage preceded by two consecutive games at home for the other team) for 2012 because Major League Baseball implemented the second wild card slot on March 2, 2012, long after the 2012 regular season schedule had been set, leaving no room for the 2 ...