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OK now, here's the challenge for the Washington Nationals and everyone else as they scheme against the Los Angeles Dodgers: finding a way to rattle Corey Seager.

But unless you were one of three Dodgers living with the probable NL Rookie of the Year this summer, good luck zeroing in on it.

From the rival manager’s seat, it’s a head-scratcher.

It's only appropriate that the Bleacher Report MLB 300 nears its finish with a look at the guys who finish games. It's time for the top relief pitchers of the 2016 Major League Baseball season.

When the 2016 MLB season began, few people figured the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants would be here.

Sure, a majority of baseball pundits and fans expected both teams to be playing in October. But most thought they'd be respective division winners readying for the National League Division Series—not participants in the Wild Card Game.

An exciting start to the 2016 MLB postseason should have fans ready for even more in the coming days.

The beauty of the Wild Card Game is that every moment is magnified.

On Tuesday in Toronto, that beauty shone in all its glory.

Playing before a raucous Rogers Centre crowd in the do-or-die American League showdown, the Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles tussled for 11 taut innings before Toronto won, 5-2, on a three-run walk-off homer by Edwin Encarnacion.

If Tuesday's drama-filled American League Wild Card Game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles was an indication of what's to come in the 2016 MLB playoffs, baseball fans are in for a treat.

Edwin Encarnacion played the role of hero with a three-run walk-off homer in the 11th inning, propelling the Blue Jays past the Orioles 5-2 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto and pushing them to a date with the Texas Rangers in the American League Division Series.

Sometimes, the baseball gods just don't smile down upon you.

Baltimore's season came to a brutal end in extra innings, as Edwin Encarnacion's three-run blast off Ubaldo Jimenez in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the Toronto Blue Jays a 5-2 victory over the Orioles, who are now 2-8 in their last 10 playoff games dating back to 2012.

Boasting a National League-best 27 home runs at the end of July, Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story was on pace to decimate Nomar Garciaparra's rookie shortstop record of 30 home runs, which was set in 1997 for a Boston Red Sox team that finished 78-84, per MLB.com.

If the San Francisco Giants (87-75) are going to win their fourth World Series title in seven years, they will need to get through the defending National League champions first on Wednesday when they visit the New York Mets (87-75) in the Wild Card Game.

The matchup is listed as a pick’em at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark, with each team hoping its ace can do the job and earn a shot at the Chicago Cubs.

If you're a fan of the long ball, then the American League Wild Card Game between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays is right up your alley. Baltimore led baseball with 253 regular-season home runs, while Toronto finished fourth with 221 outfield fence-clearing blasts.

With more than 450 homers between the two clubs—and 57 combined bombs in the 19 regular-season games in which they faced off (28 for the Orioles, 29 for the Jays)—it's entirely possible the AL Wild Card Game will more closely resemble a home run derby than playoff baseball.