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Fact: San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner threw a complete-game shutout against the New York Mets on Wednesday night, the third of his postseason career. He is now tied for the second-most complete-game shutouts in postseason history.

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Manager Terry Collins didn't hesitate to use his All-Star closer like his counterpart Buck Showalter did, but the results for New York Mets were the same as they were for the Baltimore Orioles in the Wild Card Game—an abrupt end to a promising season.

The waiting is just about over for the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers. The Toronto Blue Jays just want to pick it up from where they left off Tuesday night.

The Blue Jays won their Wild Card Game against the Baltimore Orioles when Edwin Encarnacion launched an Ubaldo Jimenez pitch into the second deck in left field with two runners on in the bottom of the 11th inning at the Rogers Centre, giving the Blue Jays a 5-2 walk-off victory.

The Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers are sure to keep things civil in a friendly American League Division Series rematch that won't fester any animosity on either side.

Just kidding. Tensions are sure to brew in this bitter rivalry.

It's October! Let's all go down to the pumpkin patch and see which appears first, the Great Pumpkin or Zach Britton...

1. Standing in the Shadows of October

They've won Cy Young awards. They're earning hundreds of millions of dollars.

But will Boston's David Price and Los Angeles' Clayton Kershaw dominate in one of these postseasons the way they've dominated in the regular season?

Over the past few weeks, the 2016 Bleacher Report MLB 300 has been ranking the top players at each individual position. Now it's time for the grand finale: the complete list.

In case you're just now joining us, the goal of the B/R MLB 300 is to rank the best players from the 2016 season by analyzing their assorted talents and scoring them accordingly. For more on how each individual position was approached, you can go straight to the source:

The Boston Red Sox were remarkable in the month of September and took control of what had been a tight American League East when they won 11 games in a row.

That streak enabled them to get the best of the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles, and while they lost five of their final six games, they still won the division comfortably.

On Thursday night at Progressive Field, the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians will meet for the sixth time in postseason play.

Each team has won two series, with Cleveland also taking a one-game tiebreaker playoff in 1948.

That's interesting for historical context, but it doesn't have any bearing on the 2016 American League Division Series.

At one point, this would have been a clash between the Indians' stable of power arms and Boston's deep, potent lineup.

If the remaining MLB playoff teams were a Quentin Tarantino flick, they might be called The Grateful Eight.

OK, that's unfair. "Grateful" implies an element of luck. And while there's some good fortune in every postseason run, all of these clubs deserve to be where they are.

They earned it over a 162-game slog and, in the case of the Toronto Blue Jays and San Francisco Giants, the high-pressure crucible of the one-and-done Wild Card Game.

NEW YORK — If the Chicago Cubs are the team that wants to spend this month rewriting their history, the San Francisco Giants are the team that can spend October embracing theirs.