National League Wild Card Playoff 2016
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| date | 5th October 2016 | ||||||
| Venue | Citi Field | ||||||
| city | in New York City , New York | ||||||
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Venue of the NL Wildcard Playoff 2016. |
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San Francisco Giants winner of the NL Wild Card Playoff
The 2016 National League Wild Card Playoff was the game between the two Wild Card winners of National League Baseball . The winner of this game competes in the National League Division Series 2016 against the best division winner of the NL. Only one game was played, this took place on October 5, 2016. As the home team of the wildcard game, the New York Mets were chosen, as they won 4 times against the San Francisco Giants in the regular season , with 3 defeats. This tiebreaker rule had to be applied because both teams ended the regular season with the same score of 87-75.
The pairing read:
- New York Mets (Second NL East, 87-75) v San Francisco Giants (Second NL West, 87-75)
Remaining in the postseason
→ Main articles: MLB 2016 , ALWC 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
Wednesday October 5, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. EDT at Citi Field in New York City , New York
| team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | R. | H | E. |
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| San Francisco Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| New York Mets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 0 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2016 MLB Postseason Schedule. MLB.com, accessed September 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Boxscore: New York Mets vs. San Francisco, Wild Card Game. MLB.com, accessed October 12, 2016 .