{"id":125756,"date":"2025-09-07T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125756\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:11:09","slug":"mlb-wild-card-standings-2025-playoff-bracket-al-and-nl-standings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125756\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB wild card standings, 2025 playoff bracket, 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

Major League Baseball<\/a>‘s postseason races are heating up through the first week of September.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants<\/a> won nine of 10 games entering Saturday and have pulled within four games of the New York Mets<\/a> in the NL wild-card standings, ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> and fading Cincinnati Reds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the AL wild-card chase, the Seattle Mariners<\/a> have lost seven of 10 and have two teams \u2013 the Texas Rangers<\/a> and Kansas City Royals<\/a> \u2013 within a game for the final playoff spot. Seattle’s struggles also opened the door for the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> and Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2025 regular season ends on Sunday, Sept. 28.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the least standings:<\/p>\n

Updated through games played Saturday, Sept. 6AL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

New York Yankees<\/a> (79-63):\u00a0+5 gamesBoston Red Sox (78-65): +3.5 gamesSeattle Mariners (74-68)Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0(73-69): 1 gamesbackTexas Rangers<\/a>\u00a0(73-70): 1.5 GBCleveland Guardians (71-70): 2.5 GBTampa Bay Rays (71-71): 3 GBNL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/a>\u00a0(81-61): +5 gamesSan Diego Padres<\/a> (77-65): +1 gameNew York Mets<\/a>\u00a0(76\u201365)San Francisco Giants (72-70): 4 GBArizona Diamondbacks (72-71): 4.5 GBCincinnati Reds<\/a>\u00a0(71-71): 5 GBSt. Louis Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0(71-72): 5.5 GBAL EastToronto Blue Jays (82-60)New York Yankees (79-63): 3 games backBoston Red Sox (78-65): 4.5 GBAL CentralDetroit Tigers (82-61)Kansas City Royals (73-69): 8.5 GBAL WestHouston Astros (78-65)Seattle Mariners (74-68): 3.5 GBTexas Rangers (73-70): 5 GBNL EastPhiladelphia Phillies (83-59)New York Mets (76-66): 7 GBNL CentralMilwaukee Brewers (88-55)Chicago Cubs<\/a> (81-61): 6.5 GBNL WestLos Angeles Dodgers (78-64)San Diego Padres (77-65): 1 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":125757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5888,592,64,63,4034,9826,5127,5158,10027,5257,9278,6115,5258,5128,7809,5134,5125,5126,30050,15142,5261,5143,5144,591,314,331,621,637,324,3127,1830,2704,44,323,335,5135,3919,2274,13506,13935,5124,1189,5157,17600,5142,5162,588,17601,85,635,11499,155,17599,1190,3370,2367,441,25962,6114,3918],"class_list":["post-125756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-bay","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-city","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-diego","tag-francisco","tag-giants","tag-guardians","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-royals","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-rangers","tag-rays","tag-reds","tag-royals","tag-san","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-scores","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-story","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-u0026","tag-wa","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125756","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=125756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}