There were 4 pools, with each pool having a winner and then 2
Wild Card Teams also advancing.
Not exact matches
The Yankees
also won Wednesday, defeating the Twins — the
team that holds the second
wild card as of this writing — keeping pace with the Sox.
These
teams are contending because of the second
wild card, but they're
also contending because of the weird sub-parity in the American League right now, and I'm not ready to pretend like they're truly excellent
teams in a truly excellent steel cage match.
The year before that the
teams also met in the
wild -
card round, and Philly turned out the lights on Tampa Bay's season, holding the Bucs to 199 total yards and sacking Shaun King four times in a 21 — 3 win.
They're nine games back in the AL Central but just 3.5 back in the
wild card race behind four other
teams, so there is hope, but they are
also going to be without Miguel Cabrera — the current AL leader in both batting average and on - base percentage — for at least another month.
This little break of one day could
also help the
wild card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason ch
wild card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason ch
card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game
Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason ch
Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason ch
Card Series, while the other two
teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chaos.
Thanks to the recent realignment, the NHL introduced the idea of
wild cards, much like the NFL has, where the top three
teams in each division get in, and the two runner ups in the conference behind them
also make it.