New York Mets to win NL Wild Card Series vs. San Diego (-194) The Padres went all-in right before the trade deadline, and the Mets went all-in during the offseason.

Welcome to the Wild Card Series, a product of the tedious 99-day lockout between M.L.B. and the players’ union that finally led to a collective bargaining agreement in March.

MLB MLB playoff format explained: Making sense of baseball’s postseason seeds, Wild Card round, etc. Just two years into the relatively new 12-team playoff format, baseball fans still have some ...

MLB added a wild-card game in 2012 that pitted two wild-card teams against one another in a winner-take-all single game. That format saw a brief interruption when 16 teams make the playoffs during ...

The entire month of October is loaded with baseball drama, but nothing drums up the chaos quite like the Wild Card Series. The introduction of the one-game wild-card format in 2012 gave MLB ...

Major League Baseball has invited 12 teams to the postseason for the past two years. In each of those playoffs, a team that wouldn’t have qualified for the playoffs in the old format — when ...

MLB MLB playoff format explained: Making sense of baseball's postseason's seeds, Wild Card round, etc. Just two years into the new(ish) 12-team playoff format, there are still some questions ...

MLB added a wild-card game in 2012 that pitted two wild-card teams against one another in a winner-take-all single game. That format saw a brief interruption when 16 teams make the playoffs during ...

T he crack of the bat still echoed through empty stadiums when Major League Baseball decided it was time for a change. The old postseason system, with its single-elimination Wild Card game, had ...