First off, thank the baseball gods. Second, call in sick, skip class, take an extra-long lunch break. Just find an excuse to get away from your regular Monday obligations. We have two tiebreaker games for the first time in MLB history. These will be the 11th and 12th one-game tiebreakers and the first since the Rays and Rangers played in 2013 for the second AL wild card.
These tiebreakers differ from the first 10 because in those games, the loser went home. The losers of these games will meet each other in the wild-card game Tuesday. Still, you don't want to play in that game.