Both San Francisco and Anaheim secured wild-card spots to the playoffs.
The Seattle Mariners avoided Champagne when clinching the A.L. West, but the Oakland Athletics used Champagne when they secured the wild card.
Ten months later after receiving treatment in Perugia, Italy, Kleybanova secured a wild card into the Sony Ericcson Open in Miami in March 2012.
In Hustvedt's sixth novel, Harriet Burden, an artist who has spent many years in the shadow of a wealthy art-dealer husband, secures wild acclaim for three of her installations by enlisting three male artists to take credit for them.
If the Mets have secured a wild-card spot by then, Syndergaard might throw only 25 pitches in the game to keep him sharp for the wild-card game.
His fifth hit (in his 31st and final at-bat of the regular season) sparked the game-winning rally against Pittsburgh on the final scheduled day of the regular season, sending the Mets to a one-game showdown against the Cincinnati Reds that secured the wild-card spot.
Although Flacco, now that Baltimore has secured a wild-card berth, is the first passer since the 1970 merger to lead his team to the playoffs in each of his first five seasons, he takes a three-game losing streak into Sunday's home game against the Giants.
Can the Mets surpass the Braves or secure the wild card?
What was a clear two-way race between the Jets and the New England Patriots in the AFC East has turned into fight to stay afloat and secure a wild card spot.
Jones refused to look ahead, but should the Chiefs win their division and the Jets secure a wild card, Jones could face the team that released him last off-season.
She won the match and came over to where we were all sitting – her husband and supporters – and I told her that we'd managed to secure a wild card to get her into the Olympics (her ranking had dropped because she had picked up an injury).
