Playoff Scenarios and Monday Night Football

From a Dodgers web site:

 

If Philadelphia finishes ahead of a tied Los Angeles and San Diego, there would be a tiebreaker game for the National League West title in Los Angeles on October 2.

 

If San Diego finishes ahead of a tied Los Angeles and Philadelphia, there would be a tiebreaker game for the NL Wild Card in Philadelphia on October 2.

 

If Los Angeles finishes ahead of a tied San Diego and Philadelphia, there would be a tiebreaker game for the NL Wild Card in Philadelphia on October 2.

 

If San Diego and Los Angeles finish tied ahead of Philadelphia, San Diego would be the NL West champion and Los Angeles the NL Wild Card.

 

If all three teams finish tied, San Diego would play at Los Angeles to decide the NL West champion October 2, and the loser of that game would go to Philadelphia to decide the wild card October 3.

 

Bottomline, if the Phils are involved in a wild-card playoff tiebreaker, the game's at Citizens bank.

 

Not only is it as Citizen's bank, but it will be held on Monday, October 2. And since the two most likely teams to play the Phils - the Dodgers or the Padres - are west coast teams, the game will likely be played Monday evening given the travel considerations of going cross country.

 

Which means that the Phillies would be playing for a berth in the post-season, while across the parking lot and at the same time the Eagles were thrashing the Packers on Monday Night Football.