Since MLB's most recent 12-team playoff format took effect in 2022 ... giving it the same aura as the pandemic-marred 2020 season. "What we've tried to do is be really deliberate this week ...

NEW YORK — It all looked kinda familiar, almost as if we’d seen it before … There they were, that where’d-they-come-from wild-card team dancing and hugging in the infield, as fireworks ...

The 2024 MLB ... in 2020 after the 60-game, pandemic-shortened campaign. The last time L.A. won in a normal season was 1988. In 2022, Major League Baseball introduced a new twist to the postseason.

With the two top seeds meeting in the World Series, there was a lot less griping about MLB's expanded playoffs this year. That doesn't mean it's perfect.

They had to hear about how 2020 wasn't a "real" title ... It clearly speaks to the difficulty, the playoff format, all that ...

In 2020, all games that went to extra innings ... One rule that doesn't make the transition to the playoffs and the World Series is the ghost runner. When teams go to extra innings, there will ...

It also comes with questions: Is the league outgrowing its postseason format ... Earlier semifinals games were on ESPN2 because MLB playoff games were on ESPN.) But this arrangement will ...

The 2020 postseason was the one in which Randy Arozarena went from relative unknown to bona fide household name, and all it took was setting a few records. The expanded format of the 2020 playoffs ...

Winners advance to the Division Series, providing more teams with postseason chances and maintaining excitement in the playoff format ... 2020 when Covid-19 pandemic struck the world. In 2022, MLB ...

MLB altered its playoff structure in 1969 and established ... from a best-of-five series to a best-of-seven format. The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Guardians in the 2024 ALCS.