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The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> may have lost to the Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Sunday (box score<\/a>), but they nonetheless became the second team to clinch a spot in the postseason thanks to some help from the team they’ll play next. Indeed, the Phillies secured a playoff berth when the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> took down the San Francisco Giants<\/a> by a 10-2 final (box score<\/a>) on Sunday.<\/p>\n While the Phillies are now assured a spot in the tournament, they were denied their second consecutive division title for at least one more day. Philadelphia would have wrapped up the National League East crown with both a win and a New York Mets<\/a> loss. The Mets defeated the Texas Rangers, however, snapping their own eight-game losing streak in walk-off fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Phillies and Dodgers will begin a three-game set on Monday that has obvious playoff implications. The Phillies will enter 4 1\/2 games in front of the Dodgers for the second seed in the NL playoff field — an important position given the top two seeds both get first-round byes, and the compromised state of the Phillies roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not only is Philadelphia without ace Zack Wheeler<\/a> (thoracic outlet decompression surgery), but they’ll also have to go at it without high-leverage reliever Jose Alvarado<\/a> (injured and ineligible for the playoffs because of a suspension earlier this year) and with both shortstop Trea Turner<\/a> (hamstring) and third baseman Alec Bohm<\/a> (shoulder) dealing with physical ailments.<\/p>\n “We all know what’s at stake,” slugger Kyle Schwarber told reporters<\/a>. “I don’t think that’s going to make us want to try harder or anything like that. We have to stay within ourselves and play our style of baseball.”<\/p>\n As noted above, the Phillies are the second team to secure a playoff berth. The Milwaukee Brewers became the first earlier this weekend<\/a>. The Dodgers, Chicago Cubs<\/a>, Detroit Tigers<\/a>, and Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are all in position to join those clubs over the course of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Philadelphia Phillies may have lost to the Kansas City Royals on Sunday (box score), but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[24618,64,63,94993,5152,591,2365,85,22727,50577],"class_list":{"0":"post-143850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alec-bohm","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jose-alvarado","12":"tag-kyle-schwarber","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-trea-turner","17":"tag-zack-wheeler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143850","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=143850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}