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Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures are used by Major League Baseball (MLB) to break ties between teams for qualification and seeding into the MLB postseason. The procedures in use since 2022 , when a third wild card team and resulting Wild Card Series were added for both the American League and National League , are outlined below.
if these teams meet again in the League Championship Series, they would be re-seeded based upon the two way intra-division tie-breaker. The top two teams have the same record, but neither team is in the division with the wild-card. Here, the intra-division tiebreaker at the bottom of the previous section is used.
The Chicago White Sox celebrate after defeating the Minnesota Twins 1–0 to win the 2008 American League Central. A tie-breaker was required in Major League Baseball (MLB) when two or more teams were tied at the end of the regular season for a postseason position such as a league pennant (prior to the introduction of the League Championship Series in 1969), a division title, or a wild card spot.
Major League Baseball’s tiebreaking procedures are fairly simple. If two teams, regardless of division, finish with the same record, the team that won the season series wins a tiebreaker.
One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.
The Suns beat the Pelicans 2-1 in the season series, so they will win the tiebreaker if they finish with identical records. The Kings (45-35) are now tied with the Golden State Warriors and Los ...
If the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants finish the regular season with the same record, they'll play a one-game tiebreaker Oct. 4 at Oracle Park.
The 2009 American League Central tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 regular season, played between the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins to determine the champion of the American League's (AL) Central Division.