{"id":151070,"date":"2022-10-08T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=151070"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:00:24","slug":"mlb-playoffs-guardians-look-to-finish-off-rays-mariners-set-sights-on-blue-jays-upset-in-wild-card-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-playoffs-guardians-look-to-finish-off-rays-mariners-set-sights-on-blue-jays-upset-in-wild-card-game-2","title":{"rendered":"MLB playoffs: Guardians look to finish off Rays, Mariners set sights on Blue Jays upset in wild-card Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 MLB season is advancing into a brave new world, a 12-team postseason bracket that will decide a champion over the next month. The burst of high-stakes baseball pits eight teams against each other &#8212; Guardians-Rays, Cardinals-Phillies, Blue Jays-Mariners, Mets-Padres &#8212; for the right to advance. And it&#8217;s getting real fast. The new best-of-three wild-card series began Friday with the Padres humbling Max Scherzer and the Phillies turning the tables on St. Louis.The top seeds they would face in the next round are familiar &#8212; the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. But certainly some of these challengers have designs on toppling baseball&#8217;s existing world order.First, they have to get through this weekend. Saturday will see three home teams, the higher seeds, face down elimination.Game 2: Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Guardians &#8211; 12:07 p.m., ESPN2 (Guardians lead, 1-0)Game 2: Seattle Mariners at Toronto Blue Jays &#8211; 4:07 p.m., ESPN (Mariners lead, 1-0)Game 2:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 MLB season is advancing into a brave new world, a 12-team postseason bracket that will decide a champion over the next month. The burst of high-stakes baseball pits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-151070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}