MLB playoffs: ESPN’s final wild-card round brought historic viewership, up 64% from last year

ESPN’s final year with Major League Baseball’s wild-card round was a historic one. The network announced Monday that the wild-card round of the playoffs last week averaged 4.6 million viewers. That’s up 64% from last year’s games and a record in the history of the three-game wild card format.

MLB Wild Card Format 2025: How many games are played in this round and which teams qualified for the postseason?

The excitement of the 2023 MLB postseason is already underway, with the Wild Card Series kicking off on Tuesday. The format once again relies on the intensity of short series, with

MLB wild-card round odds: The favorites for every series

The MLB Wild Card round continued on Wednesday with a quartet of Game 2's. Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine Cincinnati Reds batters to help the Los Angeles Dodgers sweep their wild-card series. All the other series,

Five things we learned during the first round of the MLB playoffs

History can’t stop the Yankees, the Dodgers are a juggernaut, and more lessons from the most entertaining opening round ever.
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How do teams like the Brewers that get a first-round bye fare in the MLB playoffs?

Though common sense tells you that it benefits a team to get a playoff bye, you won't have to look far to find lingering sentiment that extended time off can also cause a team to lose its momentum. The Milwaukee Brewers, for the first time in the ...

MLB playoffs 2025: Yankees, Cubs and Tigers advance with Game 3 wins in wild-card round

Most strikeouts by a Yankees pitcher in his playoff debut: Cam Schlittler, 10 K, 2025 ALWCS GM 3 vs. BOS Dave Righetti, 10 K, 1981 ALDS GM 2 at MIL Red Ruffing, 10 K, 1932 WS GM 1 vs. CHC https://t.co/Y2KX2mKI9d
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