Last night, the 2014 baseball postseason began with a one-game American League wild-card playoff game between the Oakland Athletics and the less playoff-experienced Kansas City Royals. The As jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, and built to a 7-3 lead in the sixth, but the Royals kept scrapping and fighting, bunting and sacrificing, and getting just enough hits to push the game to extra innings. And, one run down in inning 12 and about to go home until spring, Kansas City found a way to win. Welcome to postseason baseball. Tonight, the National League stages its own one-and-done wild-card game: the Pittsburgh Pirates vs. the San Francisco Giants, played in Pittsburgh.