Who is the wildcard in baseball

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The wild card came into play in , it was put in place to heighten the excitement of the Postseason. The MLB playoff is commonly known as the tournament for elimination, it is held every year after the regular season. The playoff is held to determine the world series Champions. The first round of games in the playoff is known as the wild card game. This round is an introductory round where the wild card teams from both leagues face off for one game of elimination. After the introductory round, two winners progress to the next round which is seen as the first main round of the playoffs which is also called the division series.

The winners go against the team in the same league as them that has the highest win record. While the two remaining teams from each league play against each other.

For the division series, they have a format where five games are being played to determine the qualifiers for the next round. It is done by making the first team that wins three games advance to the next round. After this stage, the two winners from the division series of each league will now advance to the league championship series which is also the semi-finals. Both LCS combined are 7 played games to pick out the first team to win four games.

The winners of this stage now advance to the world series. The Marlins went on to beat the Indians in seven games, winning the last decisive game at home, allegedly the result of the advantage. Indeed, wild card teams won three consecutive World Series from In the Division Series, the wild card team which could be considered analogous to the fourth seed in other sports tournaments usually plays the team with the best record within their league.

However, an MLB rule states that teams from the same division are not allowed to face each other in the Division Series. Therefore, in the event that a wild-card team ends up sharing the same division as the team holding the best record, the former will play the second-best team in the league while the latter will face the third-best.

This policy thus ensured that the two best teams in a given conference, even if both of those teams were from the same division, could face off in the conference championship. This rule was applied in the NLDS , when the division winners in the NL were as follows in order from best to worst according to regular season records : the St.

Typically, the Astros would have opened their Division Series against the Cardinals and the Padres would have faced the Braves; however, as the Astros and Cardinals were both within the NL Central Division , it was arranged so that the Astros played the Braves and the Padres played the Cardinals. In the season , a new format called the "play-in game" was added in which two National League teams and two American League teams battled in two separate games in a single day to determine which would move onto the playoffs.

The first of these games were held on October 5 , and featured the St. The Cardinals-Braves game was won by the Cardinals, but was played under official protest by the Braves following a perceived blown call regarding the infield fly rule.