Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays for defeating the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in the AL Wild Card, thanks in part of a stellar complete game by Dwight Gooden who the acquired as part of a blockbuster trade earlier in the season.
They Blue Jays will go on to face the Braves in one of our NLDS matchups.
Congratulations to the Montreal Expos for winning the NL Wild Card against the once seemingly-invulnerable Philadelphia Phillies. Moises Alou drove in the lone RBI in the 1-0 victory, with Montral’s Ken Hill pitching a complete game shutout on the strength of 10 strikeouts.
The AL Wild Card game of Tigers .vs. Blue Jays will broadcast tomorrow, March 17th, at 7:15pm PDT following AEW Dynamite on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture
Welcome to our 5th Divergent League Baseball Postseason, folks! This season we’ll be doing things a bit differently, with 2 games being broadcast each Tuesday and Friday night starting at 6:45pm PDT.
Tuesday’s games will be our Wild Card matches: Expos .vs. Phillies and Tigers .vs. Blue Jays.
Update: We ended up doing just one game and pushing the other to Wednesday. Weds at 7:15pm we’ll broadcast Jays .vs. Tigers!
The Commish will be holding office hours in Discord during the games, we hope you’ll drop in to root root root for the home team.
The official calendar has been updated with the new days and times.
You can find the 1993 Postseason Bracket in the previous post. Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards coming to this post soon.
After the Blue Jays dramatic win over the Royals, we’ve got our Postseason picture. Congratulations to the Jays, Tigers, White Sox, Giants, Expos and Braves.
Matchups are as follows:
This season has 3 non-player-teams: The Orioles, Astros, and Cardinals.
Divergent League Postseason coverage starts this Sunday at 4pm PST.
Update: Congratulations to the Blue Jays who won 5-4.
Today on Twitch we’ll be streaming Divergent League Baseball’s last game of the regular season, the last tie-breaker to see who gets into the AL Wild Card.
The Blue Jays dropped a heart-breaker at home to the Orioles to lose the AL East crown, but they’ve got one more chance. Can they hold up against Kansas City, or are the Royals Playoff-bound? Find out today at 2pm.
You can find the transcript on the episode page. Big Doings in the Al East, plus the Postseason teams are (mostly) announced.
Today’s games will be from early August and feature some combination of:
Catch Phil’s curated 30-minute pre-roll of commercials and trailers from 1993 on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture
Just one week left in the regular season! For a transcript see the episode page.
Standings & Power Rankings
AL East
AL Central
AL West
NL East
NL Central
NL West
The Giants beats the Phillies at home 4-1.