Sentences with phrase «winner of the wild card»

Not exact matches

The winner of the AFC duel between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills would get one team a leg up in the wild card race.

The Colorado Rockies, winners of the second NL Wild Card spot, are back for the October dance for the first time since 2009 and just one season after an 87 - loss campaign.

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

If only U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson had used one of his wild - card picks on the 2014 FedEx Cup winner, maybe things would have turned out differently at Gleneagles.

Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL wild - card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.

He's a long shot for one of those two wild - card spots, reserved for race winners who finish 11th through 20th in points, but the fact that he's in mathematical contention makes the 28 - year - old Floridian one of the surprises of 2012.

Cleveland will face the winner of the AL Wild Card Game, which will feature the Twins visiting the Yankees in New York on Tuesday night.

Instead, we'll have the two wild cards with the inferior records face off in Baseball Thunderdome, and the winner of that single game will go on to face the wild card team that had the bye in a three - game series.

The Giants of 1997 and 2003 proved that divisions, six division winners, and making four wild card teams have a steel cage match to get into the real postseason was only fair.

Out of the 10 wild card game winners from 2012 - 2016, five have won the division series, showing just how unpredictable baseball can be.

The winner of the NL Wild Card Game will advance to play another divisional foe with the Los Angeles Dodgers waiting in the NL Division Series, which begins Friday, Oct. 6 at Dodger Stadium.

The Chicago Cubs await the winner of the NL Wild Card Game.

The Indians will kick off their postseason on Thursday against the winner of Tuesday's AL Wild Card game of Minnesota (+200) at New York Yankees -LRB--235).

Each Group will have 1 Winner and there will be 3 Wild Card Teams that advance for a total of 9 Teams advancing to the Knockout Rounds

Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.

-- Garrett Hedlund or Jason Mitchell (Mudbound) as WWII soldiers returning to a home they don't quite belong to; and the wild cards: two - time Oscar winners Christoph Waltz (Downsizing), playing a shrunken resident of Leisureland, and Kevin Spacey (All the Money in the World) as Jean Paul Getty, who will either shine in the role or be a hot mess in prosthetics.