The Blue Jays will face the Minnesota Twins in the playoffs

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After clinching an American League wild card over the weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays are back in the post-season for the second year in a row and the third time in four years. They'll face the AL Central division champion Minnesota Twins in a best-of-three series starting Tuesday afternoon.

Here are some basics to get you ready for the Jays-Twins matchup:

It's all happening in Minnesota. As the higher-seeded team, the No. 3 Twins get to host every game against No. 6 Toronto. The first two games will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at 4:38 p.m. ET. Game 3, if necessary, will be Thursday afternoon.

It looks like a tossup. Despite being the road team, the Blue Jays (89-73) actually won two more games than the Twins this year. But the winners of each division get the higher seeds, and the Twins had the great fortune of playing in the AL Central, where all four of the other teams had a losing record. Toronto finished third in the cutthroat AL East, where the last-place team (Boston) finished with the same 78-84 record as the second-place team in the AL Central (Detroit). More evidence suggesting this series is too close to call: the Jays and Twins went 3-3 against each other this year, and the betting markets have this as the tightest of the four matchups in the wild-card round. Minnesota is the consensus favourite, but only by a very slight margin at most sportsbooks.

Something's gotta give. The Blue Jays haven't won a playoff game since 2016, when Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Donaldson and company reached their second consecutive AL Championship Series. In its only