Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures
Procedures for breaking ties in the season-long standings of Major League Baseball / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about breaking ties in season-long team standings. For breaking ties in an individual game, see extra innings.
This article is about the procedures used since 2012. For prior procedures, see Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures (1995–2011).
Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures are used by Major League Baseball (MLB) to break ties between teams for qualification and seeding into the MLB postseason. The procedures in use since 2022, when a third wild card team and resulting Wild Card Series were added for both the American League and National League, are outlined below.
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