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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 ...
The series used the 2–3 format for 2012 because on March 2 the league had implemented the new "wild card" playoff, eliminating the travel day between Games 4 and 5. [1] The 2–3 format was used for best-of-five Championship Series rounds prior to 1985 and for the Division Series rounds from 1995 to 1997. The matchups for the 2012 ALDS were:
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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 ...
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 ...
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The best teams not reaching the World Series? That's a grand old baseball tradition.