Sentences with phrase «second wild card team»

Not exact matches

The second NFC Wild Card spot belonged to the Atlanta Falcons, but they have now lost four straight after falling to a tough Minnesota Vikings team that had five consecutive wins before losing to the Green Bay Packers in Week 11.

This matchup marks the second time these teams have met in the postseason, the first of which was back in 1996 during the AFC Wild Card Playoffs with the Jaguars winning, 30 - 27.

You can do this with every team fighting for the second wild card in the American League.

So don't look at the AL second wild card as a bunch of teams with rosters that are three - quarters empty.

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.

But the absolute best thing about the second wild card is that it makes teams care about winning their division.

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.

These are two quality teams, but I can't give this chase more than a B because it's a) a second wild card and b) the teams have absolutely nothing to do with each other usually.

The second wild card race in the American League has been a procession of different teams getting their lips stuck in the escalator, and it's been unfathomably ugly.

There's similar bunching with three teams holding onto the two wild card spots in the Senior Circuit, as the Marlins and Cardinals are tied at 57 - 51 for the second one.

The second game, the finale, is against the Vikings, and it could be the difference between a top three seed and a wild card spot for both teams.

The winner of each division faces off against a wild card team, while the second - and third - place teams face each other.

To make things that much more complicated, over in the AL, there are six teams bunched up like that in part because just.001 points of winning percentage separate the Orioles and Blue Jays in the AL East — the Red Sox hold the second wild card and are just two games back of the division lead themselves, and the only way the O's and Jays both end up with a wild card is if Boston leapfrogs them for the division.

The Los Angeles Angels have been baseball's busiest team on the waiver trade deadline day, and the American League Wild Card contenders added another player on Thursday, acquiring second baseman Brandon Phillips and cash considerations from the Atlanta Braves, the teams announced.

The Rangers are just 4 1/2 games out of the second wild card, although they're behind two teams in their own division, and they're five games under.500.

All three of the teams rallying for the second NL Wild Card slot won, which leaves them exactly where they stood a day ago.

Sept. 26: The Twins won again, and in the process not only eliminated multiple teams from the AL Wild Card race but knocked their magic number to secure the second Wild Card spot down to one.

In»96 he slammed 39 home runs for the second straight year and drove in a career - best 142 runs, and Baltimore was the American League wild - card team.

As an impartial observer, I'm more keen on the Orioles» approach of the little addition / hope for the best combo for a team that's chasing the second wild card along with six others.

The Blue Jays are five games back of the second AL wild card, the Tigers six back, and they have six and seven teams ahead in between them, respectively.

It's here in the third paragraph that the stories of these two teams converge, as the Brewers are just one game behind the Rockies for that second NL wild card.