The two teams finished their season series at five wins apiece and single-game playoffs will not be employed this season to determine division winners or postseason seeds. To put it in simpler terms, if the Cubs go 9-8 to finish the season, the Cardinals will have to win 15 of their final 25 to stake a claim as a co-division champion. That’s unlikely considering both teams have spent the last 3-4 weeks playing subpar baseball and it’s not often that two teams in the same division go on that kind of a season-ending heater. Louis has one less loss than the Cubs, both teams could win the rest of their games and the North Siders would end up in second place. That makes the magic number for the Cubs to clinch the division 18, which seems odd considering Chicago has just 17 games left. With a record of 25-18, Chicago holds a three-game lead over the 18-17 Redbirds in the NL Central. Five of those makeup games will be played as twin bills, including two-game sets against Detroit tomorrow and the Reds on Sunday. An eighth - against the Tigers - will only be played if the game has playoff implications for either team, which seems likely. The Cardinals split a doubleheader with the Twins yesterday and still have at least seven makeup games left on their schedule. That's a lot of pitches thrown and swings taken. Even at 7 inning games, that's 14 innings a day. Because the Cardinals still have so many makeup games left, things get a tiny bit cloudy when trying to construct some sort of synopsis.Ĭardinals have 5 double-headers in the final 2.5 weeks of the season. This crazy season has just about 20 days left before the postseason starts, and now is as good as time as any to start looking at playoff- and division-clinching scenarios. The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves clinched a spot in the playoffs but the NL East is still up for grabs.įor the rest of the sport, here are their magic numbers for clinching their division and/or making the postseason.The Cubs won 3-0 last night and I started thinking about their magic number. This is also the case for the Houston Astros in the American League West. The Los Angeles Dodgers were the first team to clinch a playoff spot and their division so their magic number is zero. The Giants prevailed as they won 107 games and the Dodgers won 106.īut this year, all of the battles are seemingly going to be like the latter: between teams that will be in the playoffs regardless but the final few games will determine the seeding of the teams. Even in the NL, it was a battle until the end for who would win the NL West: the San Francisco Giants or Los Angeles Dodgers. In the American League in 2021, there were four teams (the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, and Seattle Mariners) were all fighting for two playoff spots (both AL Wild Card spots). With just over two weeks left in the regular season, some MLB teams have already clinched their divisions or a playoff spot.Įach MLB team has about 10 games remaining in the season but the teams that look like they will be in the playoffs are pretty clear, unlike last season. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – SEPTEMBER 18: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees reacts after hitting a double in the ninth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field on Septemin Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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