1 Seed plays the winner of 4 and 5 seeds (both WCs) 2 seed plays the winner of 3 and 6 seeds (Div 3 and WC6) As Tuckmose said, no reseeding anymore.
Mariners will be difficult in a 5 game series. Luis Castillo Robbie Ray Logan Gilbert George Kirby They have a solid 4 starting rotation.
SeaHag announcers are bemoaning the fact they'll have to root for the Astros the next 7 games. eta: nice little pitcher's duel so far in Anaheim eta2: nice jinx, self. M's slam puts them up 5-0
Looks like that Yuli hot streak was really just a limited time event. Hopefully he gets another hot streak when playoffs starts, maybe a 3 weeks long in October? lol
per the Rays broadcast (this is former Stro announcer Dewayne Staats's 7000th game, btw), here are the AL leaders with RISP: Kopech, Manoah, Ohtani, Luis Garcia, McClanahan (all under .170 BA)
This is by no means a definitive judgement, but Maldy leads Mancini in IF hits this year 1-0. Huge oops...was looking at only Mancini's Astros stats: he has 13.