yep, it’s crazy that a team can win 106 games and be stuck in a wild card, one game playoff.
I wish baseball would have the wild cards play a series rather than a 1 game playoff.
Then again, it’s also frustrating to me that the playoffs already go for an entire month, and game 7 of the World Series will be November 3rd. Depending on the teams involved, we could see some bad baseball weather.
A World Series of White Sox vs. Brewers, Red Sox vs. Brewers, Yankees vs. Brewers, Yanks vs. Cards etc. could feature some cold games. You hate to see the most important games of the season played in bad baseball weather.
I stand corrected, as Milwaukee has a retractable roof. So games there will not be affected by bad baseball weather.
Bobby Thompson’s “shot heard ‘round the world” three-run homer 70 years ago today (walk-off homer ending the game) was in game 3 of a three-game playoff between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers to determine the NL pennant race. At least the two teams did not have to travel very far to get to their opponent’s ballpark. The Giants went on to lose to the Yankees in the World Series.