2016 National League Wild Card Game
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| Date | October 5, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Citi Field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Queens, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Umpires | C. B. Bucknor, Mike Everitt, Jeff Nelson, Mike Winters (crew chief), Quinn Wolcott and Jim Wolf. Replay: Scott Barry and Mark Carlson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 44,747 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Dan Shulman, Jessica Mendoza, Aaron Boone, and Buster Olney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dave O'Brien and Jim Bowden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 National League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 postseason played between the National League's (NL) two wild card teams, the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. As both teams finished with identical 87–75 records, a tiebreaker was used to determine the host team. In accordance with MLB tiebreaking rules, the Mets earned the right to host the game by winning their season series against the Giants 4–3.
The game was played on October 5, 2016 at Citi Field in Queens, New York, and the winner advanced to play the first-seeded Chicago Cubs in the Division Series. It was televised in the United States on ESPN.
The Giants defeated the Mets, 3–0.
This was New York's third playoff appearance as a Wild Card team, and their second consecutive postseason appearance after winning the National League pennant the previous season, while it was San Francisco's second appearance since 2014, when they went on to win the World Series. It was the second postseason meeting between the Mets and the Giants, after the 2000 National League Division Series.
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