American League Wild Card Playoff 2016
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| date | 4th October 2016 | ||||||
| Venue | Rogers Center | ||||||
| city | in Toronto , Ontario | ||||||
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Venue of the AL Wildcard Playoff 2016. |
The 2016 American League Wild Card Playoff was the game between the two wild card winners of the American League . The winner of this game competed in the American League Division Series 2016 against the best division winner of the AL. Only one game was played, it took place on October 4th, 2016. The Toronto Blue Jays were chosen as the home team of the wildcard game , as they won 10 times against the Baltimore Orioles in the regular season , with 9 defeats. This tiebreaker rule had to be applied because both teams finished the regular season with the same score of 89-73.
The pairing read:
- Baltimore Orioles (2nd AL East, 89-73) versus Toronto Blue Jays (2nd AL East, 89-73)
Remaining in the postseason
→ Main articles: MLB 2016 , NLWC 2016 , NLDS 2016 , ALDS 2016 , NLCS 2016 , ALCS 2016 , World Series 2016
| Wild Card Games | League Division Series | League Championship Series | World Series | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cleveland Indians | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston Red Sox | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cleveland Indians | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| American League | ||||||||||||||||||
| WC1 | Toronto Blue Jays | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Texas Rangers | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC1 | Toronto Blue Jays | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC1 | Toronto Blue Jays | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC2 | Baltimore Orioles | 0 | AL | Cleveland Indians | 3 | |||||||||||||
| NL | Chicago Cubs | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Washington Nationals | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| National League | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Chicago Cubs | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Chicago Cubs | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC2 | San Francisco Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC1 | New York Mets | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| WC2 | San Francisco Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Submit Results
Wild Card Games: one game; ALDS, NLDS (Division Series): Best-of Five; ALCS, NLCS (Championship Series), World Series: Best-of-Seven
Game summary
Tuesday October 4, 2016 at the Rogers Center , Toronto , Ontario
| team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | R. | H | E. |
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| Baltimore Orioles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4th | 0 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
WP : Francisco Liriano (1–0) LP : Ubaldo Jiménez (0–1)
HRs : BAL - Mark Trumbo (1) TOR - José Bautista (1), Edwin Encarnación (1)Individual evidence
- ↑ 2016 MLB Postseason Schedule. MLB.com, accessed September 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Boxscore: Baltimore vs. Toronto, Wild Card Game. MLB.com, accessed October 5, 2014 .