![]() Given these results, what exactly is the point of the regular season if three of its four best teams (on paper) didn’t even get close to the World Series? (The Houston Astros, for the record, easily handled the just-happy-to-be-there Seattle Mariners.) The first complaints were aimed straight at the expanded MLB postseason format, which now includes three Wild Card teams in each league, two of whom – the Phillies and Padres – will now play for a place in the World Series. In just four playoffs games, the Padres made a huge regular-season gap meaningless. That’s the same Padres who finished 22 games behind the Dodgers in the NL West. On a rare rain-drenched Saturday night in San Diego, the Padres pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory over their heavily-favored foes to complete a 3-1 NLDS win. ![]() Yet even these flameouts don’t compare against the plight of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wrapped up a 111-51 regular season ( the fourth-highest total in MLB history) that placed them as the top seed in the National League. They managed to eke out the same number of postseason victories as the Mets, losing 3-1 in the NLDS to the Philadelphia Phillies, who finished 14 games below both teams in the NL East standings. The Atlanta Braves, despite earning a bye after just beating the Mets to the NL East title, didn’t fare much better. Forced to play the San Diego Padres in a newly established three-game Wild Card series, the Mets managed to win just a single playoff game. ![]() It started with the 101-win New York Mets, who didn’t even make the National League Division Series.
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