Six long months and 162 grueling games weren’t enough to decide the composition of the baseball playoffs. For the first time in history, MLB’s regular season will conclude with two different tiebreakers, a thrilling conclusion to a topsy-turvy year across the National League. In the NL Central, the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers finished with identical 95-67 records. In the NL West, the Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers both went 91-71. It all adds up to make Monday—initially pegged as a day off for the entire sport—the most exciting day of 2018 thus far.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 30, 2018 23:03 UTC