{"id":107204,"date":"2025-08-30T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107204\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:34:09","slug":"mlb-wild-card-standings-2025-playoff-picture-al-and-nl-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107204\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB wild card standings, 2025 playoff picture, AL and NL standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mookie Betts on Shohei Ohtani’s greatness: ‘It’s unexplainable’<\/p>\n

Mookie Betts chats with Mackenzie Salmon about what it’s like to be teammates with Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

With a month remaining in the 2025 Major League Baseball<\/a> season, the playoff races are heating up and several division races project to go down to the wire.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> and San Diego Padres<\/a> are locked in a back-and-forth battle atop the National League West, the Houston Astros<\/a> and Seattle Mariners<\/a> are going at it in the American League West and the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> will try to fight off the Boston Red Sox<\/a> and New York Yankees<\/a> down the stretch.<\/p>\n

The final day of the regular season is Sept. 28, with the postseason beginning two days later.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the latest playoff picture:<\/p>\n

(Standings through games played Friday, Aug. 29)AL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

New York Yankees (75-60): +3 gamesBoston Red Sox (75-61): +2.5 gamesSeattle Mariners (72-63)Kansas City Royals<\/a> (69-66): 3 games backTexas Rangers (69-67): 3.5 GBCleveland Guardians (67-66): 4 GBNL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/a> (77-58): +4 gamesSan Diego Padres (75-60): +2 gamesNew York Mets<\/a> (73-62)Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (68-67): 5 games backSan Francisco Giants (67-68): 6 GBArizona Diamondbacks (67-69): 6.5 GBSt. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (67-69): 6.5 GBAL EastToronto Blue Jays (78-57)New York Yankees (75-60): 3 games backBoston Red Sox (75-61): 3.5 games backAL CentralDetroit Tigers (79-57)Kansas City Royals (69-66): 9.5 GBAL WestHouston Astros (75-60)Seattle Mariners (72-63): 3 GBTexas Rangers (69-67): 6.5 GBNL EastPhiladelphia Phillies (78-57)New York Mets (73-62): 5 GBNL CentralMilwaukee Brewers (84-52)Chicago Cubs (77-58): 6.5 GBNL WestLos Angeles Dodgers (77-58)San Diego Padres (75-60): 2 GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mookie Betts on Shohei Ohtani’s greatness: ‘It’s unexplainable’ Mookie Betts chats with Mackenzie Salmon about what it’s like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[2872,5146,64,63,4034,3929,483,5156,16089,5127,5158,10027,5257,9278,5128,5134,5138,5145,5163,5139,15142,5261,2871,1187,3924,5143,5144,591,314,331,621,637,324,3127,1830,2704,44,323,335,5135,5122,13506,13935,5124,1189,17600,5142,5162,5123,588,17601,85,635,3923,2366,11499,155,3920,5161,441,6114,3918],"class_list":["post-107204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angeles","tag-astros","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-blue","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cardinals","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-city","tag-cubs","tag-diego","tag-dodgers","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-jays","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-louis","tag-mariners","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-padres","tag-red","tag-reds","tag-royals","tag-san","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-scores","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sox","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-st","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-statistics","tag-story","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-u0026","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}