ICYMI: Blue Jays clinch top wild-card seed, will play first-round series at home
have clinched the top wild-card seed in the American League and will play their first-round series at Rogers Centre starting Friday.locked up the spot Monday night when the Seattle Mariners dropped a 4-3 decision to the Detroit Tigers.Major League Baseball changed the wild-card format for this post-season. Three wild-card teams will make the cut in each league this year along with the three division winners.
The winner will advance to play the top-seeded Houston Astros in the best-of-five AL Division Series starting Oct. 11. The sixth-seeded club will open against the No. 3 Cleveland Guardians on Friday in the other AL wild-card series. The winner will take on the No. 2 New York Yankees in the ALDS. The division series winners will advance to the best-of-seven American League Championship Series. The winner of that series will play the National League champion in the World Series starting Oct. 28.last made the playoffs in 2020. Toronto was swept by the Rays in a wild-card series that year.After winning the Fall Classic for the second time, the Bluedidn't return to the playoffs until 2015. Toronto reached the ALCS that year and returned to the final four in 2016.