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No game is played if both teams are guaranteed to go to the playoffs. This happened in 2001 Major League Baseball season when the Houston Astros (9–7 against STL) and St. Louis Cardinals (7–9 against HOU) tied for first in the National League Central with records of 93–69.
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.
Consequently, the tie-breaking rules were changed so that two teams tied for a division championship had to play a tiebreaking game even if both teams had already qualified for the postseason. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The team losing the tie-breaking game qualified for a wild-card berth only if its regular-season record was among the league's two ...
The 2001 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball’s 2001 postseason which saw the second-seeded Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the third-seeded Atlanta Braves in five games to win the National League pennant in the franchise's fourth year of existence.
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.
Under the ABS challenge system, batters and catchers can challenge umpire calls on balls or strikes at the plate in real time. Umpires then receive an answer to the challenge through an earpiece.
The 1999 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1999 regular season, played between the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds to determine the winner of the National League (NL) wild card. It was played at Cinergy Field in Cincinnati, on October 4, 1999.
One-game playoff games appended to a Major League Baseball season to break a tie in the regular-season standings. This does not include "winner-takes-all" final games of a postseason series, e.g., the seventh game of a best-of-seven series.