Baseball has finished its first round of the playoffs under its new expanded system for this year. (Congratulations to everyone who lived through eight games in one day and lived to tell the tale.) As has been the case with so much else this season, this offered plenty of stuff that had never been seen before. So what did we learn? Here are a few takeaways:
A three-game playoff series feels like no man’s land
MLB’s regular season is built on three-game series. But the structure is completely new to October and, of course, it presents differently in the playoffs.