

Todd Bowles is the right coach at the right time for Tom Brady Uncertainty for women's college sports after Roe reversal American League standings get wild with 6 teams fighting for 4 spots College football in NFL model? How it would look with just 32 teams Sports Newsletter: Get the biggest stories delivered In fact, of the seven winner-take-all playoffs since the wild-card era began in 1995, four were won by teams with the inferior head-to-head record. 1 wild card into an all-road scenario, too. The Brewers would have been dropped into a three-game wild card shootout, all on the road.Īnd McGee’s 2013 Rays, by virtue of a 3-4 record against the Rangers, would have fallen from a tie for the No. Under the new system, one outcome would be different: The 2018 Dodgers went 12-7 against the Rockies, the Cubs 10-9 against Milwaukee.
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That year the system, you could say, worked: Division winners determined by a final clash of wills, and advancing further in the playoffs than their vanquished wild-card brethren. They were swept by the Brewers, who then fell in a seven-game NLCS to the Dodgers. The Rockies beat the Cubs in 11 innings and then bussed to Wisconsin, arriving at their Milwaukee hotel after 3 a.m. The wild card Rockies were dispatched to Chicago, where they took on a Cubs team dispirited by their own Game 163 loss to Milwaukee. The Dodgers went on to a second consecutive World Series. Five years later, he pitched a scoreless inning for a Rockies team that was flattened by rookie Walker Buehler, who stretched the Dodgers’ streak of NL West titles to six after Los Angeles and Colorado each finished the regular season 92-70. McGee was a member of the victorious 2013 Tampa Bay Rays team that went into Arlington, Texas and eliminated the Rangers one day after the regular season ended.
