MLB wild-card round opens with a full slate of Game 1 action
The first day of MLB's wild-card series delivered a busy opening round across the postseason bracket.
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Major League Baseball's postseason got underway with Game 1 of the wild-card round, as teams across both leagues opened their best-of-three series on the same day.
The wild-card format, in which higher seeds host all games against lower-seeded opponents, puts immediate pressure on the road teams to either win early or face elimination in a short series.
With every wild-card matchup beginning simultaneously, the opening day gave fans a full schedule of postseason baseball to follow before the series move to their second games.
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