Baseball's wild-card mania
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The wild card had many detractors when it debuted in 1995. But this year, doubters are hard to find.
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Champagne flowed. Joe Torre cried. The New York Yankees whooped it up. Celebrating clinching wins never gets old, even when you've made the postseason for 13 seasons in a row.
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A rare comeback against Mariano Rivera kept the Chicago White Sox on top in the AL wild-card race.
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In this era of wild-card entries and best-of-five-game playoff series, a talented team can stroll through the regular season, fire its manager, pick up its pace and find
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So many angles. So many sub-plots. So much intrigue for a game pitting two non-winning teams holding one-way tickets to irrelevance.
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This yearâs World Series was so full of odd, unscripted sights and moments that it sometimes seemed as if the laws of baseball probability had been temporarily suspended.
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The Philadelphia Phillies won a coin   toss giving them home field advantage in the event of a   tie-breaking game with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National   League wild card, Major League Baseball announced on Monday.
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are ahead of Larry Bowa&#39;s team in the chase for the wild card. The Phillies. have 19 games to play, including 12 against teams with under-.
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Mike Matheny, Edgar Renteria and the St. Louis Cardinals can win with singles, doubles and triples, too. After tying a postseason record with five home runs
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MIAMI - The Chicago Cubs' 24-hour visit to Miami included a brief stay atop the NL wild-card race. Then they lost their lead because they couldn't beat David Weathers...
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There's a method to spotting tomorrow's home runs.
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Astros: Houston got rolling under manager Phil Garner, who replaced Jimy Williams at the All-Star break, and an amazing late-season surge carried the Astros to the wild card.
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Catching the New York Yankees [stats, schedule] remains the primary goal of the Red Sox [stats, schedule], but winning the wild card and being forced to face the Oakland
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(Sports Network) - The San Francisco Giants not only have wild card apsirations, but they can possibly win the NL West. San Francisco will play the middle contest of a three-game series versus the Los Angeles Dodgers today in southern California.
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Here it comes. You can feel the rumbling of anticipation now. Just two games into the American League playoffs, we already have a colossal collision coming into focus.
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Last season, when the Boston Red Sox clinched the wild-card spot in the baseball postseason, the players staged a frenzied celebration on the field at Fenway Park.
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The commissionerâs office held coin flips in case the Mets wind up in a tie for the N.L. wild-card lead.