Thursday was a good day of baseball, except for the San Francisco Giants, who didn’t play baseball because they weren’t good enough to play baseball, and thus weren’t awarded additional baseball to play.
But it was good for the teams that did play (well, half of them), as well as for fans of the sport. And it also concluded the Wild Card Round, and set the full schedule for the Divisional Round.
In the National League, the top-seeded Milwaukee Brewers will indulge in a rivalry matchup against their divisional foe, the Chicago Cubs. The other matchup is the second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies against the evil empire, the No. 3 Los Angeles Dodgers.
Over in the American League, there’s another divisional matchup in the aptly-named round, as the top-seeded Toronto Blue Jays take on the No.