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The final two teams are the winners of the National League Wild Card Series, played between the league's third to sixth-seeded teams. The Los Angeles Dodgers (111–51) became the first team to clinch a playoff berth on September 13, their tenth straight postseason appearance, which is the third longest streak in MLB history. [ 1 ]
The NLDS is a best-of-five series where the divisional winner with the best winning percentage in the regular season hosts the winner of the Wild Card Series between the top two wild card teams in one matchup, and the divisional winner with the second best winning percentage hosts the winner of the other Wild Card Series between the lowest-seeded divisional winner and the lowest-seeded wild ...
On March 10, Major League Baseball changed the postseason structure for the first time since 2012, adding a sixth team to the postseason in each league, awarding the top two division winners in each league (seeded by record) to receive a bye into the Division Series, and added a best-of-three Wild Card round hosted by the higher seed. The ...
The 2022 National League Championship Series was the best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2022 postseason between the fifth-seeded San Diego Padres and the sixth-seeded Philadelphia Phillies for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2022 World Series. The series began on October 18 and ended on ...
The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half in each division in the 1981 National League Division Series. The winners played in the 1981 NLCS for the National League pennant. [129] b The leagues were re-aligned in 1994 to three divisions and a wild card was added to the playoffs, but the labor stoppage cancelled the ...
For the 2020 postseason only, the field expanded to include three second-place teams per division, followed by the wild card teams represented by the next two best records from each league. [3] All eight teams played in a best-of-three Wild Card Series. [3] Starting in 2022, a third wild card team was added to each league.
The Phillies returned home for Game 3 of the National League Division Series. It was the first postseason game held at Citizens Bank Park since Game 5 of the National League Division Series in 2011. [39] The Phillies sent Aaron Nola to the mound and he was dominant pitching six innings without giving up an earned run. [39]
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.