Gear Up for MLB Baseball Postseason
The pro baseball season is long, with 162 games, and it’s more of a marathon than a sprint. The postseason though, is one of the best in professional sports. It defines October in America. It’s still long, since it’s based around series winners — unlike the NFL, with its win and move on system — but this means you get heated rivalries, classic games, and winners who know they earned it.
This year, the MLB postseason starts on Oct. 4, when the American League Wildcards square off. The next day, the National League Wildcards go against each other. These play-in games set the stage for the postseason. Still, they offer incredible excitement as two teams battle with everything to win and everything to lose. Then, with the Wildcards decided, the playoffs begin in earnest on Oct. 6.
The Playoff Race
Another great part of the MLB season is the lead-up to the playoffs. Teams are racing for those last spots. A lot of teams already feel like they’re in the postseason, trying to win and stay alive, while those at the top have to keep fending off those below.
Look at the American League. At the end of Aug. 10 teams are battling for postseason berths, and they’re all within three games of one another. With baseball’s quick pace of scheduling, the teams are constantly jumping each other. A team could drop from first to last in a week, then leapfrog back up next week.
Making History?
There are questions being asked during this brutal race, in the American League and the National League. Can the Kansas City Royals get back on track to defend their historic title, the one they took last year to break one of the longest steaks in professional sports? Can the Chicago Cubs, one of the heavy favorites before the season began and current owners of the best record in baseball, finally break perhaps the most notorious curse in sports across America, winning for the first time in 100 years? Can the Cleveland Indians, largely considered a lock for the postseason, build off of the success of LeBron James and the Caveliers, winning an NBA title months after LeBron brought home that long-desired NBA title, smashing yet another winless streak? Or will all of these feel-good stories be cast aside, and will a traditional powerhouse mow through the postseason to claim a title?
We can’t know, and that’s the beauty of the MLB postseason! It’s a fight through September just to get in, and then October brings all of these story lines together. If you want to be there to see it play out in person, to perhaps witness history — as the Royals’ fans did last year — it’s time to check out the great baseball ticket options at Headline Tickets.
