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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Matt Martell In five weeks, we’ll be watching playoff baseball. Because of the new 12-team postseason format, this is the first year in which there will be four best-of-three Wild Card Series, two in the AL and two in the NL, as opposed to the single one-and-done game in each league. This sets up for one exciting first weekend of the playoffs, with four games Friday and Saturday, back-to-back-to-back-to-back, and if we are lucky, four consecutive win-or-go-home Game 3s on Sunday. I’ve written in the past about how much I loved the one-game wild-card round, because it gave fans two immediate…