Major League Baseball says it has scheduled every game of the regular season's closing day to start at the same time because it hopes to elevate the excitement of the day.
MLB COO Tony Petitti, speaking to the Los Angeles Times, said the league hopes to "maximize" the day in the event multiple meaningful games are played.
"If a game impacts another game, they're all occurring at the same time, so no team would be put into a lame-duck situation because their fate already had been decided by an earlier result," Petitti told the newspaper.
First pitch for Oct. 4 games is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET.