Teams might have to play the wild-card game the day after the regular season.
Even so, he remained theoretically eligible for a wild-card entry that World Triathlon Corp. can award.
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As the Philadelphia Phillies struggle for a wild-card spot, fans are glued to Comcast's SportsNet.
The extra wild-card spot improved the chances of the Rays to 56% from 29%.
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Under the old system, wild-card teams had about a 9% chance of winning the World Series.
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February's general election resulted in a three-way split among the right, the left and a wild-card party.
Many players say they might not figure out how to celebrate until they clinch a wild-card spot.
The wild-card party of Beppe Grillo, the grass-roots Five-Star Movement, will also not enter into an alliance.
The first says they should postpone any fiestas until after the wild-card playoffs.
But as Boston roiled after a giant wild-card choke to the Tampa Bay Rays, booze became an easy culprit.
The Italian's Domina Vacanze team missed out on an invitation when the four wild-card teams for the Tour were released.
One might think the addition of a wild-card team in each league this season might increase the chances of postseason success.
Sure, it's hard to see the Baltimore Orioles duplicating a remarkable season that landed them a wild-card spot in the playoffs.
"I'd be all for celebrating, " said Jason Hammel, a starter for the Orioles, who are in position to earn a wild-card berth.
The wild-card playoffs take place just two days after the season ends.
Bartoli, who received a wild-card invite after making a late entry, will face former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinals.
Since the wild-card was instituted in 1995, that is a 29 percent rate (five out of 17), much higher than would be expected.
New York earned a wild-card berth with a pitching staff that included Joba Chamberlain, who struck out 34 batters in 24 innings that season.
Elsewhere former women's world number one Ana Ivanovic lost to 21-year-old German wild-card Mona Barthel in the first round of Stuttgart's clay-court WTA tournament.
So look for the percentage of wild-card teams both winning and reaching the World Series to decrease, possibly dramatically, over the next few years.
He did not cite specifics, but the Washington Redskins were heavily criticized for the condition of their field for their wild-card game against Seattle.
The closest precedent for this conundrum comes from 1995, the first year that baseball added the wild-card teams and an extra round of the playoffs.
That isn't counting possible tiebreaker games to determine a wild-card winner.
As the Belgian wild-card entry waited to play the next point, Williams, who had already been handed a code violation for racquet abuse, vented her frustration.
He doesn't expect the Yankees who could win either the American League East division or a wild-card spot to go crazy if they have to settle for the latter.
There has been plenty of hand-wringing since Major League Baseball announced the addition of another wild-card team from each league, expanding its playoffs to 10 from eight.
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Louis Cardinals, who qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the regular season, became the fifth wild-card team to win the World Series in 2011.
In the earlier mixed doubles final Sunday, wild-card entrants Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden of Australia beat the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak 6-3, 7-5.
The Braves proved efficient relative to their peers, yet feel like a major disappointment given their inability to clinch the National League wild-card berth despite a sizable September lead.
Italy has been laboring in a state of political uncertainty since February's elections left a three-way split between the right, the left and the wild-card party of Beppe Grillo.
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