Winning the wild-card game doesn't guarantee postseason success in Major League Baseball, but it does strike up important doses of confidence and momentum moving into the divisional series.
Since the wild-card game was introduced in 2012, two winners have gone on to play in the World Series, with the 2014 San Francisco Giants being the only wild-card winner to win a championship.
The wild-card winners from the past two years have experienced a mixed bag of results, as both American League winners advanced to the ALCS, while the victors out of the National League won one combined game in the NLDS.