Split Rivalries
Beginning in 2013, the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, and Philadelphia Phillies. will form a "split rivalry." Odd years will feature Braves-Blue Jays and Phillies-Red Sox home-and-home series, while even years will feature Braves-Red Sox and Phillies-Blue Jays.
In the West, the Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, and Colorado Rockies will also have a split rivalry. Odd years will feature Rockies-Astros and Diamondbacks-Rangers home-and-home series, while even years will feature Rockies-Rangers and Diamondbacks-Astros.
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Famous quotes containing the word split:
“Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)