 The team who won the regular season series would host the Wild Card game.This has occurred in 2012 (Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers were both 93–69, Texas was awarded home field advantage due to winning the season series) and 2016 (Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays were both 89–73, Toronto was awarded home field advantage due to winning the season series).Under the 2009–12 format, these match-ups would have been played as tiebreaker games at the same venues.