Wild Card Orlando v New York

 Game 1: Steven Stephens homered and drove in 2, while Silvanos Tonka pitched 5 shutout innings (combining with 4 relievers on a shutout) to earn his 17th career postseason win by a 3-0 score.

Game 2: Orlando scored 3 in the third and 3 more in the 7th. Scott Herrera had 3 hits, including a 2 run homer. Orlando took the game 6-4, getting the final 5 outs from closer Walter Miller.

Game 3: Early on it was all Orlando. They took a 6-0 lead as Antonio Sepulveda pulled an Ohtani. On the mound he went 5 2/3 shutout innings. In his starts he also serves as his own DH, and he had two hits including a 4th inning homer.

Then New York came back. Oliver Brooks homered to lead off the inning. 2 outs and 2 base runners later, Wellington Gehrig Bear launched a 3 run bomb off lefty Ben Johnston to make it 6-4.

In the 8th, a pair of singles and a hit batter loaded the bases with one out. Orlando went to lefty Nick Jeffries, and he struck out Dave Price. That brought up Lee Thompson, and the veteran hit a grand slam to put NY up 8-6.

Orlando got a pair of baserunners in the bottom of the inning but couldn’t score. In the bottom 9th, Francisco Nunes homered to make it a one run game. Bobby Barrios singled with one out. Doug Murphy got Walt Campbell to ground out, moving the tying run to second. The last batter was Sepulveda, who grounded out to end the game.

Bear was named series MVP, and New York will go on to face Detroit in the next round.