The team with a better head-to-head record for the season would get home-field advantage. In the event of a three-team tie for just one Wild Card Game spot, teams would still choose or receive A, B and C designations. Red Sox. What are the MLB postseason tiebreakers?
What happens if two or more teams are tied for a spot in the postseason? USA Today Sports. Fancy a nightmare situation, Yankees fans? Going back to what we were saying earlier … it sure is important to win your division games in the event your game season comes down to the unlikeliest of scenarios! But here we are with five games to go! The Yankees, therefore, would end up with the worst designation.
Believe it or not, there is a path to the A. Wild Card race ending in a five-way tie. The winner of the game would be declared one Wild Card winner. It would go to the team with the better head-to-head record in that case, Boston. Home-field advantage would go to the team with the better head-to-head record Red Sox, Club A would host Club B.
The winner of that game would be one Wild Card club, while the loser would then play Club C on the road to determine the other. The winners of the two games would face each other in the Wild Card Game. The three designations are decided by head-to-head records. The Red Sox went in each of their season series against the Blue Jays and Yankees, so they would have the first pick of designation.
The Blue Jays are also against the Yanks, as of this writing, so they would pick second. The Yankees would get whichever designation is left over. If the Yankees lose Sunday, they will play a rd regular-season game, as explained here. At , the Blue Jays and Mariners are both one game back. Seattle beat the Los Angeles Angels Saturday after training in the eighth inning. The Red Sox could have clinched a wild-card spot with a win and losses by both the Jays and Mariners. Tanner Houck started Saturday's game for Boston against the Nationals; he didn't allow a hit or walk and struck out eight in five innings.
The game was briefly delayed after home plate umpire Chris Guccione felt his heart racing and left as a precaution, but resumed with a three-man crew with Chris Conroy moving from second base to behind home plate. It has been an unexpected, unlikely and yet entirely entertaining run for the Mariners. There are still ways things could unfold to put them in the playoffs or a tiebreaker game, but all of those paths are uphill.
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