{"id":184808,"date":"2025-10-02T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:30:11","slug":"three-sudden-death-mlb-games-on-same-day-for-first-time-in-44-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184808\/","title":{"rendered":"Three sudden-death MLB games on same day for first time in 44 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re witnessing a bit of MLB post-season history this Wild Card Series. <\/p>\n<p>With the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres and Cleveland Guardians all forcing a winner-take-all Game 3 in their respective series, Thursday will be t<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SNstats\/status\/1973561941047255058\" rel=\"nofollow\">he first time since 1981<\/a> that three sudden-death games will occur on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2022 and 2024, just two Wild Card Series <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1973608534316294354\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1973608534316294354\" rel=\"nofollow\">required<\/a> a Game 3. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers were the lone team able to finish off the Cincinnati Reds in two games, beating their National League counterpart with an 8-4 win on Wednesday night. They will face the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch all games live on Sportsnet or Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full slate for Thursday&#8217;s winner-take-all Game 3s. <\/p>\n<p>Tigers at Guardians: 3:08 p.m. ET \/ 12:08 p.m. PT<br \/>Padres at Cubs: 5:08 p.m. ET \/ 2:08 p.m. PT<br \/>Red Sox at Yankees: 8:08 p.m. ET \/ 5:08 p.m. PT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re witnessing a bit of MLB post-season history this Wild Card Series. With the New York Yankees, San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-184808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}