InfoThe Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament held after the conclusion of the MLB regular season.more...As of 2012, the playoffs for each league -- American and National -- consist of: a one-game wild-card playoff between two wild card teams; two best-of-five Division Series featuring the wild-card winner and the winner of each division; and finally the best-of-seven League Championship Series.
ESPN paid for the rights to a Wednesday doubleheader and the Sunday night Game of the Week, as well as all postseason games not aired on Fox or NBC.As a result, Major League Baseball postseason games were aired on cable for the very first time....
The Brewers have been members of the National League since 1998; prior to that, the team played as a member of the American League Central Division.As such, they are the only team to appear in the Major League Baseball postseason representing both major leagues.Buck Rodgers and Harvey Kuenn led the team to one American League playoff appearance each, and Dale Sveum led the team to the 2008 National League wild card after replacing the fired Ned Yost with 12 games remaining in the season....
On October 2, 2013 Choo homered in the bottom of the 8th inning in the wild-card game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.He is the first Korean batter who hit a home run in Major League Baseball postseason....
The shortstop was the sixth player in MLB history to hit a grand slam in his first Major League game.He is also the first shortstop to hit a grand slam in a Major League Baseball postseason game.Crawford played college baseball for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was twice named the team's Most Valuable Player (MVP)....
The entire master schedule was released on September 14, 2011.The Major League Baseball postseason was expanded to include a second wild card team in each league beginning in the 2012 season.The season marked the last for the Houston Astros as a member of the National League....
A scoreless tie was broken in the fourth inning in style, when Brandon Crawford launched a grand slam to right field.Crawford became the first shortstop to hit a grand slam in Major League Baseball postseason history.Brandon Belt hit singles in back-to-back at-bats in the 6th and 7th innings, driving in three more runs and Buster Posey added the 8th run for the Giants in the 8th inning....
Major League Baseball and CBS went with some rather unconventional scheduling during the LCS round, with two consecutive scheduled off-days in the NLCS after Game 2.CBS' first year of Major League Baseball postseason coverage in general, proved to be problematic for the network.First and foremost, none of the teams involved in the ALCS (Boston and Oakland), NLCS (Cincinnati and Pittsburgh), and World Series (Cincinnati and Oakland) involved teams from baseball's largest media markets....
Because inclusion in the Major League Baseball postseason is based upon the teams' regular-season records, procedures exist to break ties between teams.
In 1993, they started play in the Western division of the National League.Since that date, the Rockies have reached the Major League Baseball postseason three times, each time as the National League wild card team.Twice (1995 and 2009) they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs....
In 2013, after spending seven seasons with the Hanwha Eagles of KBO, Ryu became the first player from the KBO to join a MLB team via the posting system.Ryu was also the first South Korean to serve as the starting pitcher of a Major League Baseball postseason game....
It was the first ever Major League Baseball postseason game in Seattle and both teams pitched their best for Game 3.
The 163rd game was determined to be an extension of the regular season and not considered to be part of the 2013 Major League Baseball Postseason.The Rangers lost to the Rays 5-2 in the tie-breaker and were eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since 2009....
Following the change, Canadian cable providers were legally required to continue carrying the local Peachtree TV signal, instead of switching to the national TBS feed.Beginning with the 2008 season, TBS began airing Major League Baseball postseason games, with regular season baseball coverage expanding to include games from other MLB teams.In November 2009, TBS debuted its first late-night talk show, Lopez Tonight, hosted by comedian George Lopez....
WPCH continues to carry some of the same programs as TBS (albeit at different times), and as a result, some Canadians may have initially perceived Peachtree TV as either a renaming of, or equivalent to, the U.S. TBS service.However, WPCH does not carry flagship TBS programs such as Major League Baseball postseason coverage, or the talk show Conan, both of which are instead carried by other Canadian channels.Since the rebranding, WPCH has been removed from some cable providers due to carriage disputes with Turner, including Videotron (which removed the station in 2009 but reinstated it in 2011) and Cogeco (which dropped it in 2011)....
He was selected by Baseball America to their annual "All-Rookie team".On October 6, 2013, Ryu became the first South Korean to serve as the starting pitcher of a Major League Baseball postseason game.In his first start of the 2014 season in Sydney, Australia, Ryu held the D-backs scoreless in five innings of work....
Curt Menefee worked all halftime shows and all postgame shows on non-doubleheader Sundays, also from the same game site with the same analysts.Menefee hosted Fox NFL Sunday during the several weeks in October when Buck was not available; during that time, Buck called Major League Baseball postseason games, including the World Series.The October 15, 22 and 29 shows were broadcast from the Los Angeles studios; the show returned to the road on November 5....
