October baseball approaches, and World Series hopefuls will rise to the occasion or fall like the autumn leaves.
The MLB Postseason has 12 teams still in the title hunt, with the lower seeds having to contend in the high-pressure, best-of-three Wild Card Series beginning Tuesday, September 30.
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