MLB Vs COVID-19.

For good baseball teams that endured months of semi-quarantine, COVID-19 protocols and eerily quiet stadiums, watching a season end in less than 36 hours was brutal.

Major League Baseball’s history has been built around the long haul, so this year’s 60-game regular season was quite an adjustment from the usual 162-game grind.

Baseball has moved to a more sudden-death approach over the past few years, incorporating a winner-take-all, wild-card game in the AL and NL that essentially functioned as a play-in game.

That wasn’t the case this year: The Twins – who won 36 games and the AL Central – were knocked out in 18 innings by the resurgent Astros They scored two runs in two games in front of an empty Target Field and their season ended on Wednesday.