The streaking M’s have momentarily broken the AL East’s grip on the new wild card system in the American League. In the NL, each division would currently get one of the wild cards.
On July 10, the Seattle Mariners finished a four-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays, an early highlight of what is now a 14-game winning streak. The streak has done more than vault the playoff-starved M’s back into contention. It disrupted, for now, the possibility that four teams from the historically dominant American League East would cruise into the postseason under Major League Baseball’s new expanded format.
Such an outcome would be an unwelcome twist in baseball’s bid to extend fan interest with more playoff games. When MLB emerged from the 2022 lockout with a new postseason model in hand, adding an additional wild card entrant to each league to bring the total number of qualifying teams to 12 out of 30, followers of the sport’s entrenched also-rans had cause for optimism, if not yet celebration.
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