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The 2016 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 2016 postseason played between the American League 's (AL) two wild card teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles. As both teams finished with identical 89–73 records, a tiebreaker was used to determine the host team.
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- October 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 · 2016 Wild Card GameToronto Blue Jays over Baltimore Orioles (1-0) Dates: October 4, 2016. WS MVP: Ben Zobrist. NLCS MVP: Javier Báez, Jon Lester. ALCS MVP: Andrew Miller.
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t. e. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the wild card teams are the three teams in each of the two leagues ( American and National) that have qualified for the postseason despite failing to win their division. Those teams in each league possess the three best winning percentages in their league after the three division winners.
Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore Orioles (5-2). Oct 4, 2016, Attendance: 49934, Time of Game: 3:25. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability
The 2016 American League Wild Card Game marked the first ever postseason meeting between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles, but the two teams knew each other quite well, having been division rivals since the Blue Jays' inception in 1977. They had met for key three-game series at the Rogers Centre only a few days earlier, with the ...
NLWC. 2017 →. The 2016 National League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 2016 postseason played between the National League 's (NL) two wild card teams, the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. As both teams finished with identical 87–75 records, a tiebreaker was used to determine the host team.
The 2016 American League Division Series ( ALDS) were two best-of-five game series to determine the participating teams in the 2016 American League Championship Series of Major League Baseball. The three divisional winners (seeded 1–3) and the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff played in two series. The divisional winners were the Texas ...
