Today is the last day of the 2019 baseball season on which there will be two games. That’s the bad news. The good news is that they are both winner-take-all games; the victorious teams will meet each other in the National League Championship Series beginning Friday.
The last time both division series in a single league went to a fifth game was 2015, when Royals/Astros and Blue Jays/Rangers ALDS both played winner-take-all games. The last time it happened in the National League was 2012: Cardinals/Nationals and Giants/Reds.