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With right-handed Trea Turner due to bat, left-handed pitcher Tyler Matzek is replaced by right-handed pitcher Josh Tomlin (pictured) in a game on April 6, 2021. [1]In baseball, the lefty-righty switch is a maneuver by which a player who may be at a disadvantage against an opponent of a certain handedness is replaced by a substitute who is better suited for the situation.
Game 2 underway: Must-win for Braves. The teams had to get right back on the field after the Mets' stunning win in the first game of the doubleheader that clinched New York's spot in the postseason.
Tigers-Astros winner vs. No. 2 Cleveland Guardians. NL wild-card series ... MLB playoff picture: Full schedule, matchups for wild card series. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
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 ...
Right-handed batters have an advantage against left-handed pitchers and left-handed batters benefit from facing right-handed pitchers. [2] This is because a right-handed pitcher's curveball breaks to the left, from his own point of view, which causes it to cross the plate with its lateral movement away from a right-handed batter but towards a left-handed batter (and vice versa for a left ...
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 ...
Most switch-hitters have been right-handed throwers, but there have been several notable switch-hitters who threw left-handed, including Cool Papa Bell, Lance Berkman, Dave Collins, Doug Dascenzo, Mitch Webster, Wes Parker, Melky Cabrera, Nick Swisher, Justin Smoak, Michael Toglia, David Segui, Dylan Carlson, Daniel Nava, and J. T. Snow (who ...
The 2024 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2024 season.In each of the two leagues – National and American – the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best records) participated in the postseason, for a total of twelve teams.