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MLB playoff scenarios: How the five-team race in the AL could play out

It is chaos season in Major League Baseball. There are multiple very feasible scenarios in which three teams wind up tied for the two American League wild-card slots and set off a chain of events in which baseball has four win-and-you're-in games instead of the typical two. Same would go for a four-team tie, which is also still alive.

And then there's the ultimate madness: five teams, same record, a scenario that's so wild MLB's tiebreaker doesn't even account for it. The chances of it happening are infinitesimal, but so were those of the Seattle Mariners still being in the thick of things, and here we are.