Top seeds are stunningly losing at home. Both ALCS and NLCS championship series open with a rare 0-2 deficit for home teams, and it's the first time that's happened since 1970, a long 55 years ago.
The Milwaukee Brewers won 97 games this year, the most in baseball. For their efforts, they earned the No. 1 seed in the National League, and got home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Same is true for the Toronto Blue Jays, the American League East champions who won 94 games and the tiebreaker with the New York Yankees. They are the No. 1 seed in the AL.
But in the first three nights, home-field advantage hasn't meant diddly. The Blue Jays lost their first two games in the ALCS, falling to the Seattle Mariners 3-1 and 10-3 at Rogers Centre.
It's been bad for Milwaukee, too. The Brewers have lost twice to the Los Angeels Dodgers, falling 2-1 and 5-1 and getting just five total hits in 18 innings at home at American Family Field.
Both top seeds, down 0-2 already.
If that seems rare to you, it is. It's the first time since 1970 that both championship series have started with four home losses. It happened to the Cincinnati Reds and Minnesota Twins 55 years ago. The ALCS and NLCS were just best-of-three series back then, and the Reds and Twins both got swept, by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles, respectively. (The Orioles won that World Series in five games.)
The Dodgers are 4-0 on the road this postseason, and the defending champs now have a great shot at getting back to the World Series. Seattle is 3-1, splitting their road games in Detroit in the ALDS.
In series with this 2-3-2 format in best-of-7 series, teams winning the first two games on the road have won the series 24 of 27 times, a whopping .889 winning percentage.
The three winners? They're all pretty memorable because they all happened in the World Series.
In 1985, the Kansas City Royals came back to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, and the New York Mets did the same thing the following year against the Boston Red Sox.
The last team to do it was the 1996 New York Yankees, who came back to win the crown against the Atlanta Braves.
The Mariners can go ahead 3-0 on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The Dodgers are off Wednesday, but get their shot on Thursday night in Los Angeles.