But plenty more certainty was gained as a slate of nearly synchronized games played out. Nobody was eliminated. But a handful of traveling secretaries could hit “book” on hotel rooms and tell their pilots exactly where they should punch it in the team plane.

Hinch hasn't been back to the postseason — until now as manager of the Detroit Tigers. "Baseball, it's going to take you places, and sometimes, it's going to take you places where you've been,

While the six division races are all decided, along with the American League wild-card field, the National League wild-card race is still jumbled.