To help support our reporting work, and to continue our ability to provide this content for free to our readers, we receive compensation from the companies that advertise on the Forbes Advisor site. Personally, after a crazy weekend and tiebreaker games, I’d like it to wind up Blue Jays/Mariners (although, admittedly, that’s a long shot).The Forbes Advisor editorial team is independent and objective. So now I ask you: Who’s going to take the two AL wild-card spots? The TV networks are salivating over the possibility of a Yankees/Red Sox wild-card game. Another 11 percent voted for the Athletics, who have now been eliminated. Voting had 71 percent of fans saying the Red Sox would take one of the spots, 65 percent voted for the Yankees, 43 percent for the Blue Jays and 11 percent for the Mariners. Or, the Red Sox, Mariners and Blue Jays could tie at 91 wins in the above scenario.Įarlier this week, the SB Nation Reacts survey had asked readers how this race would wind up. It’s possible then for a three-team tie between the Yankees, Red Sox and Mariners at 92 wins if the latter two sweep their series. The chaos of a three-team tie would happen if the Yankees win at least one from the Rays, thus getting to 92 wins. On the other hand, the Jays are 11-5 against the O’s this year and Baltimore is 25-53 in road games.Ī four-way tie would happen at 91-71 with these results: And, the only two losses in that 15-2 run were to Baltimore, who they host this weekend. The Blue Jays went on a 15-2 run from August 28 through September 13 to get into the wild-card mix, but since then are just 7-8. the Angels this year, but the Angels gave them their only loss in that 11-game stretch, a 14-1 trouncing in Anaheim last Saturday. The Mariners have been on quite a run this September, going 18-8 and winning 10 of their last 11, including their last four in a row. However, the Rays are 9-7 against the Yankees and have outscored them 82-44 in those 16 games and I’d think they would like nothing better than to help knock the mighty Yankees out of the postseason. The Rays have clinched the AL East and home field throughout the AL playoffs and you’d think they might be resting some players. That would seem to favor Boston - but the Red Sox just lost two of three to the even worse Orioles in Baltimore, and Boston is just 40-38 away from Fenway Park and the Red Sox have lost five of their last six. (Yes, worse than the Cubs, who are 19-36 since the deadline.) The Nationals, like the Cubs, sold off at the trading deadline and have the worst record in the NL since then - 18-39. So of the four teams, three play at home, with the Red Sox the only one on the road. Here are the schedules for the four teams over the weekend, all three-game series. Here are all the various permutations and how the four teams would rank in various tie scenarios this year. The teams would be seeded 1 through 4, two games would be played Monday, October 4, and the winners would play the AL Wild Card Game Tuesday, October 5 as scheduled. If all four teams wind up tied - and they could, at 91-71 - that’s a much simpler process. This, of course, also applies if the Mariners are involved in any three-team tie. The winners of the two games would face each other in the Wild Card Game. 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. If the Blue Jays, Yankees and Red Sox were all tied, with no other non-division winners in the AL ahead of them, the three teams would choose/receive A, B and C designations. Per MLB’s tiebreaker rules, a three-way tie would take at least two days to break: If you are interested in the maximum amount of chaos for MLB’s postseason schedule, though, you’ll be rooting for a three-way tie. It’s really too bad that the Blue Jays lost to the Yankees Thursday if Toronto had won that game, the four teams would have all been within one game of each other, with a distinct possibility of a four-way tie. Going into Friday’s action, the wild-card standings read this way: Friday, we enter the final three days of play in the 2021 MLB season with no wild card spots clinched in the American League and four teams still in contention for those spots.
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