The Orioles will meet the winner of the series between wild cards Tampa Bay and Texas. Houston (90-72) won the AL West and earned a first-round bye along with AL East champion Baltimore (101-61), the top seed in the AL. The winner will face the World Series champs. Because the baseball playoffs follow a bracket format, we know that the winner of the Blue Jays-Twins series will take on the reigning World Series champion Houston Astros in the best-of-five second round. The Twins have somehow lost 18 consecutive post-season games, a record for a major North American pro sports team, dating back to 2004. But Minnesota is mired in a much worse drought. In its only two post-season appearances since then, Toronto got swept in the first round by Tampa Bay (2020) and Seattle (2022). Something's gotta give. The Blue Jays haven't won a playoff game since 2016, when Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Donaldson and company reached their second consecutive AL Championship Series. Minnesota is the consensus favourite, but only by a very slight margin at most sportsbooks. More evidence suggesting this series is too close to call: the Jays and Twins went 3-3 against each other this year, and the betting markets have this as the tightest of the four matchups in the wild-card round. Toronto finished third in the cutthroat AL East, where the last-place team (Boston) finished with the same 78-84 record as the second-place team in the AL Central (Detroit). But the winners of each division get the higher seeds, and the Twins had the great fortune of playing in the AL Central, where all four of the other teams had a losing record. It looks like a tossup. Despite being the road team, the Blue Jays (89-73) actually won two more games than the Twins this year. Game 3, if necessary, will be Thursday afternoon. The first two games will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at 4:38 p.m. 3 Twins get to host every game against No. Here are some basics to get you ready for the Jays-Twins matchup: It's all happening in Minnesota. As the higher-seeded team, the No. They'll face the AL Central division champion Minnesota Twins in a best-of-three series starting Tuesday afternoon. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here.Īfter clinching an American League wild card over the weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays are back in the post-season for the second year in a row and the third time in four years. This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter.
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