Entering 5th year, wild-card games have 好意d 訪問者s
熱烈な fans and last at-bats 港／避難所't done the home teams much good in the first eight wild-card games.
As baseball enters its fifth season with its one-game, 勝利者-take-all 判型 事前の to the 分割 Series, 勝利を得た 訪問者s have become an ありそうもない 傾向. The road team is 6-2 in wild-card games ― a good omen for the Orioles and 巨大（な）s this year.
Baltimore, Toronto, the New York Mets and San Francisco are also trying to become the second team to go from wild-card 勝利者 to World Series 支持する／優勝者 ― the 巨大（な）s were the first, （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing the wild-card winning 王室のs from the AL in the 2014 落ちる Classic.
Baltimore Orioles 投手 Tommy Hunter 注ぐs beer over Michael Bourn in the 訪問者s' clubhouse after the Orioles 敗北・負かすd the New York Yankees 5-2 in a baseball game to go to the プレーオフs , Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
A look 支援する at the first four years of wild-card games in 準備 for Baltimore-Toronto on Tuesday and San Francisco-New York Mets on Wednesday:
SHUTOUTS APLENTY
Four of the eight wild-card games have been shutouts. The Pittsburgh 著作権侵害者s have been the 犠牲者s twice.
In 2013, Tampa Bay's Alex Cobb, who had 行方不明になるd part of the 正規の／正選手 season after taking a line 運動 off his 長，率いる, pitched out of jams three times in seven innings before the Rays' bullpen finished a 4-0 勝利，勝つ at Cleveland.
In 2014, the 巨大（な）s' Madison Bumgarner (who'll start against the Mets on Wednesday) struck out 10 and needed only 109 pitches in a four-攻撃する，衝突する, 8-0 shutout at Pittsburgh.
In 2015, Chicago's Jake Arrieta gave up four 攻撃する，衝突するs in a 4-0 road 勝利，勝つ over the 著作権侵害者s, the Cubs' first postseason victory in 12 years.
Also in 2015, Dallas Keuchel 直面するd the Yankees on three days' 残り／休憩（する） and 許すd three 攻撃する，衝突するs over six innings, and three relievers finished up in a 3-0 victory.
FITTING BEGINNING
The wild-card games got off to an 適切な wild start. The first NL game in 2012 was Chipper Jones' last contest before 退職, and it 含むd a 19-minute 延期する while beer cups, popcorn 支えるもの／所有者s and other 破片 were cleaned off Turner Field に引き続いて a 論争d 内野 飛行機で行く call.
Umpire Sam Holbrook made the ru ling in the eighth inning when St. Louis shortstop Pete Kozma called for a popup in left field, but then Kozma veered away at the last moment and the ball dropped. The 勇敢に立ち向かうs thought they had the bases 負担d with one out before realizing Holbrook's 決定／判定勝ち（する）, and fans 答える／応じるd by littering the field with whatever they could find.
Atlanta lost the game 6-3 and the 枢機けい／主要なs 前進するd to the NL 選手権 Series before losing to the 巨大（な）s in Game 7.
MOST FANTASTIC FINISH
The 2014 AL wild-card game is an 平易な 勝利者. Kansas City 追跡するd Oakland 7-3 in the eighth inning and 8-7 in the 12th before Salvador Perez's 選び出す／独身 負かす／撃墜する the left-field line produced a 9-8 walk-off victory in the 王室のs' first postseason game since 1985.
BIGGEST BAT
San Francisco's Brandon Crawford became the first shortstop to 攻撃する，衝突する a postseason （野球の）満塁ホームラン，（テニスなどの）グランドスラム , going 深い against the 著作権侵害者s' Edinson Volquez in the fourth inning of what was a scoreless game in 2014.
世界保健機構'D A THUNK?
Anything can happen in a one-game プレーオフ, of course, but the Orioles' 5-1 勝利，勝つ at Texas in 2012 might have been the biggest surprise in the short history of the wild-card games.
Joe Saunders, acquired in a late-season 貿易（する）, was matched against Yu Darvish and 許すd one 攻撃する，衝突する over 5 2/3 innings as the Orioles won their first プレーオフ game in 15 years and knocked out the two-time defending AL 支持する／優勝者 特別奇襲隊員s.
The Toronto Blue Jays celebrate after 敗北・負かすing the Boston Red Sox 2-1 during a baseball game in Boston, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
New York Mets 救済 投手 Jeurys Familia, 権利, is embraced by a チーム仲間 after the Mets 敗北・負かすd the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 in a baseball game 安全な・保証するing a wildcard プレーオフ slot, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
San Francisco 巨大（な）s players celebrate on the field after clinching a second place wild card 位置／汚点／見つけ出す に引き続いて their 7-1 勝利，勝つ over the Los Angeles ペテン師 in a baseball game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
