There are two wild cards meeting in a league championship series for the first time as San Diego and Philadelphia slug it out in the National League Championship Series, which enter Friday night’s third game tied at 1-1. But this also is the first time this possibly could have happened because this is the first year having three wild cards in each league.
This also is the first time since the wild-card concept came into play for a first full season in 1996 that neither team in a league championship series —National or American — had won as many as 90 games.