Road teams rule on historic postseason day
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Wednesday was a day unlike any other in postseason history. With series-clinching victories by the Dodgers, Rays and Brewers, plus a series-extending win by the Guardians, the road teams ruled the day.
We’ve never seen a road sweep across a day like this before.
It was the first day in postseason history where there were at least four games and the road team won all of them.
Four-game days began yearly with the advent of the Division Series in 1995, after happening once in 1981 with the split-season division winners. That brings us to Wednesday, which was the 50th day in postseason history with at least four (the 2020 playoff format gave us one day with eight).
While this was the first time the road teams swept, we have seen the opposite twice. The home teams swept the four-game days on Oct. 5, 2018 and Oct. 1, 2020, with the latter of course lacking fans in the stands, though the games did take place in home ballparks.
Yet another reason baseball is the best: you never know when you’ll see something that’s never happened before.