As Dodgers celebrate championship, a Box-Toppers look back at 2024 postseason

The Los Angeles Dodgers capped off the 2024 postseason defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series in five games.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series after the season’s 12 playoff-qualifying teams played a total of 43 postseason games over 30 days in October.

Here are the Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in each of the five World Series games:

Here is a recap look at Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in each of the 43 postseason games for 2024.

Some highlights:

Four players each won Player of the Game honors twice in the 2024 postseason, tied for the most top players honors:

  • Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal won Oct. 1 in the American League Wild Card Series and Oct. 7 in AL Division Series.

  • Mets pitcher Jose Quintana won Oct. 3 in the National League Wild Card Series and Oct. 9 in the NL Division Series.

  • Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Oct. 11 in the NL Division Series and Oct. 26 in the World Series.

  • Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler won  Oct. 16 in the NL Championship Series and Oct. 28 in the World Series.

The other 35 players each one Player of the Game honors once in the postseason.

Here are the highest Box-Toppers game scores recorded by Player of the Game winners in the 2024 postseason:

The highest Box-Toppers game scores earned by batters who won Player of the Game honors in the postseason:

Source:MLB.com

In the 43 postseason games, pitchers won Player of the Game honors 24 times while batters did it 19 times. That works out to pitchers winning in 55.8 percent of the games and batters winning in 44.2 percent.

Batters won Player of the Game honors at a higher rate than they did during the regular season. Batters won Player of the Game honors in only 37.1 percent of games in the regular season, their lowest rate in any season since Box-Toppers tracking began in 1995. Pitchers won Player of the Game honors in 62.9 percent of games.

Still, the postseason month of 43 games is a small sample size compared to the regular season’s 2,429 games, in which about 92 to 97 games are played each week.

Here is a look back at posts covering the Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners on each day of the postseason:

Wild Card series

League Division series

League Championship series

World Series

2024 postseason Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners

Here are the Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in each of the postseason games in 2024, listed chronologically from the first Wild Card series games on Oct. 1 to the final World Series game on Oct. 30. Each day's Player of the Game winners are listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score (BTG).

Wild Card series
Date BTG Game Player AB R H BI   IP H R ER BB K
10/1 +14.0 SD 4, ATL 0 Michael King (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   7.0 5 0 0 0 12
10/1 +10.0 KC 1, BAL 0 Cole Ragans (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   6.0 4 0 0 0 8
10/1 +7.0 DET 3, HOU 1 Tarik Skubal (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   6.0 4 0 0 1 6
10/1 +2.0 NYM 8, MIL 4 Mark Vientos 3B 4 2 2 2   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/2 +4.2 `SD 5, ATL 4 Joe Musgrove ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   3.2 1 1 1 0 4
10/2 +3.0 DET 5, HOU 2 Andy Ibáñez PH‑3B 1 0 1 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/2 +3.0 MIL 5, NYM 3 Garrett Mitchell PR‑DH 1 1 1 2   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/2 +3.0 KC 2, BAL 1 Angel Zerpa (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
10/3 +6.0 `NYM 4, MIL 2 Jose Quintana ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   6.0 4 0 0 1 5
League Division series
Date BTG Game Player AB R H BI   IP H R ER BB K
10/5 +5.2 `CLE 7, DET 0 Tanner Bibee ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   4.2 4 0 0 1 6
10/5 +4.1 NYY 6, KC 5 Luke Weaver (S, 1) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   1.1 0 0 0 0 3
10/5 +3.0 NYM 6, PHI 2 Reed Garrett (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
10/5 +2.0 LAD 7, SD 5 Shohei Ohtani DH 5 2 2 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/6 +5.0 SD 10, LAD 2 Fernando Tatis Jr. RF 4 3 3 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/6 +2.0 PHI 7, NYM 6 Nick Castellanos RF 5 2 3 2   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/7 +12.0 `DET 3, CLE 0 Tarik Skubal ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   7.0 3 0 0 0 8
10/7 +2.0 KC 4, NYY 2 Garrett Hampson CF 2 1 2 1   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/8 +6.0 NYM 7, PHI 2 Sean Manaea (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   7.0 3 1 1 2 6
10/8 +3.1 SD 6, LAD 5 Robert Suarez (S, 2) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
10/9 +6.0 `NYM 4, PHI 1 Jose Quintana ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   5.0 2 1 0 2 6
10/9 +5.0 `DET 3, CLE 0 Beau Brieske (H, 1) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
10/9 +2.1 NYY 3, KC 2 Tommy Kahnle (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
10/9 +2.0 LAD 8, SD 0 Gavin Lux 2B 4 2 2 2   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/10 +4.0 CLE 5, DET 4 David Fry PH‑DH 1 1 1 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/10 +3.0 NYY 3, KC 1 Gerrit Cole (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   7.0 6 1 1 0 4
10/11 +4.0 LAD 2, SD 0 Yoshinobu Yamamoto (W, 1‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   5.0 2 0 0 1 2
10/12 +4.0 CLE 6, DET 3 Lane Thomas CF 4 1 2 5   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
League Championship series
Date BTG Game Player AB R H BI   IP H R ER BB K
10/13 +9.0 LAD 9, NYM 0 Jack Flaherty (W, 1‑1) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   7.0 2 0 0 2 6
10/14 +10.0 NYY 5, CLE 2 Carlos Rodón (W, 1‑1) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   6.0 3 1 1 0 9
10/14 +2.1 NYM 7, LAD 3 Edwin Díaz (S, 2) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   1.1 1 0 0 1 3
10/15 +2.0 NYY 6, CLE 3 Aaron Judge CF 3 1 1 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/16 +5.0 `LAD 8, NYM 0 Walker Buehler ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   4.0 3 0 0 2 6
10/17 +5.0 LAD 10, NYM 2 Mookie Betts RF 6 3 4 4   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/17 +3.0 CLE 7, NYY 5 (F/10) Jhonkensy Noel PH‑RF 1 1 1 2   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/18 +6.0 NYM 12, LAD 6 Pete Alonso 1B 3 4 2 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/18 +1.0 NYY 8, CLE 6 Giancarlo Stanton DH 4 1 1 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/19 +2.0 NYY 5, CLE 2 (F/10) Juan Soto RF 5 1 3 3   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/20 +3.0 LAD 10, NYM 5 Tommy Edman SS 5 2 2 4   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
World Series
Date BTG Game Player AB R H BI   IP H R ER BB K
10/25 +2.0 LAD 6, NYY 3 (F/10) Freddie Freeman 1B 5 1 2 4   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/26 +5.1 LAD 4, NYY 2 Yoshinobu Yamamoto (W, 2‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   6.1 1 1 1 2 4
10/28 +6.0 LAD 4, NYY 2 Walker Buehler (W, 1‑1) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   5.0 2 0 0 2 5
10/29 +6.0 NYY 11, LAD 4 Anthony Volpe SS 3 3 2 4   ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑
10/30 +3.1 LAD 7, NYY 6 Blake Treinen (W, 2‑0) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑   2.1 1 0 0 1 3
` Pitcher had a no‑decision in the game and did not pick up a win or a save.
No Box-Toppers points are awarded in postseason games.
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Box-Toppers tracks who most helps their team win the most games. Using standard box score statistics, Box-Toppers uses a simple formula to determine a Player of the Game for each Major League Baseball game played. That player is the person who contributed most to his team’s win. In regular season games, players earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point for being named Player of the Game and can earn bonus points for being Player of the Day or top player or batter in their league for the day. (No Box-Toppers points are awarded in postseason games.)

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