Baseball wild-card: Watch some great moments in postseason history

By Houston Mitchell

Oct. 5, 2012 12 AM PT

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The very first wild-card baseball playoffs will be held later today.&amp;nbsp; Each league will hold a one-game, winner-take-all matchup, with the winning teams advancing to the league division series, and the losers going home after just one postseason game.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Up first, at 2 p.m. PDT, the St, Louis Cardinals (the defending &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”15007006”&amp;gt;World Series&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; champions) take on the &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”ORSPT000003”&amp;gt;Atlanta Braves&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt;. At 5:30 p.m., the &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”ORSPT000160”&amp;gt;Baltimore Orioles&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; take on the &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”ORSPT000029”&amp;gt;Texas Rangers&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;In honor of the one-game format, &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”T15007055”&amp;gt;Major League Baseball&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; has released a video highlighting some great moments of the past when everything was on the line in one game.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Francisco Cabrera, Bill Mazeroski, Aaron Boone, Craig Counsell, Bucky Dent. They are all here.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;It is a fun video to watch if you are a baseball fan (although if you are a &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”ORSPT000005”&amp;gt;Boston Red Sox&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; fan, you may want to skip it, since they are on the losing end an awful lot).&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;And don’t look for the &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”PESPT0000011516”&amp;gt;Kirk Gibson&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; homer, Dodgers fans. These are moments where everything was riding on one game. That wasn’t the case when he hit his home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p class=”body”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;ALSO:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p class=”body”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-terry-francona-cleveland-20121005,0,7502183.story”&amp;gt;Terry Francona in Cleveland to discuss becoming &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;Indians&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-terry-francona-cleveland-20121005,0,7502183.story”&amp;gt; manager&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p class=”body”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-simon-cho-20121005,0,4915239.story”&amp;gt;U.S. speedskater Simon Cho admits to tampering with rival’s skate&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-danny-amendola-rams-20121005,0,7850639.story”&amp;gt;Watch Danny Amendola make spectacular one-handed grab for the Rams&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

Baseball wild-card: Watch some great moments in postseason history

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