{"id":158338,"date":"2025-09-21T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:29:09","slug":"standings-and-games-to-make-mlb-playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158338\/","title":{"rendered":"Standings and games to make MLB playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge going for history as AL playoff picture continues to form<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Gabe Lacques breaks down the storylines to watch in the AL as the MLB seasons winds down.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

With star third baseman Jose Ramirez<\/a> leading the way, the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> are fighting their way back into the MLB playoff<\/a> picture with an eight-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

This is how things stand entering play<\/a> on Saturday, Sept. 20:<\/p>\n

More: Why is Clayton Kershaw retiring? What Dodgers great said about decision<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the Guardians’ magic number to make the 2025 MLB postseason<\/a>?Guardians to make AL wild card: 8Latest MLB standingsAmerican League:<\/p>\n

AL East:<\/p>\n

Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>: 89-65New York Yankees<\/a>: 86-68Boston Red Sox<\/a>: 84-70e-Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>: 75-79e-Baltimore Orioles<\/a>: 73-81<\/p>\n

AL Central:<\/p>\n

Detroit Tigers<\/a>: 85-69Cleveland Guardians<\/a>: 82-71Kansas City Royals: 77-77e-Minnesota Twins<\/a>: 66-87e-Chicago White Sox<\/a>: 58-96<\/p>\n

AL West:<\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners<\/a>: 85-69Houston Astros<\/a>: 84-70Texas Rangers: 79-75e-Athletics: 73-81e-Los Angeles Angels<\/a>: 69-85<\/p>\n

AL Wild Card:<\/p>\n

New York Yankees<\/a>: 86-68Boston Red Sox<\/a>: 84-70Houston Astros<\/a>: 84-70Cleveland Guardians<\/a>: 82-71Texas Rangers: 79-75Kansas City Royals: 77-77National League:<\/p>\n

NL East:<\/p>\n

y-Philadelphia Phillies: 92-62New York Mets<\/a>: 80-74Miami Marlins<\/a>: 74-80e-Atlanta Braves: 71-83e-Washington Nationals<\/a>: 62-92<\/p>\n

NL Central:<\/p>\n

x-Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>: 94-60x-Chicago Cubs<\/a>: 88-66Cincinnati Reds<\/a>: 78-76St. Louis Cardinals: 75-79e-Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>: 65-89<\/p>\n

NL West:<\/p>\n

x-Los Angeles Dodgers: 87-67San Diego Padres<\/a>: 83-71Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>: 77-77San Francisco Giants: 76-78e-Colorado Rockies<\/a>: 42-112<\/p>\n

NL Wild Card:<\/p>\n

x-Chicago Cubs: 88-66San Diego Padres<\/a>: 83-71New York Mets<\/a>: 80-74Cincinnati Reds: 78-76Arizona Diamondbacks: 77-77San Francisco Giants: 76-78St. Louis Cardinals: 75-79Miami Marlins: 74-80<\/p>\n

y-clinched playoff berth<\/p>\n

x-clinched division<\/p>\n

e-eliminated from playoff contention<\/p>\n

When do the MLB playoffs start?<\/p>\n

The regular season ends Sunday, Sept. 28, and the Wild Card Series begins with four games on Tuesday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge going for history as AL playoff picture continues to form USA TODAY Sports’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[2872,17598,5888,592,64,63,613,1186,4034,9826,3929,483,5156,5131,5127,5158,5256,10027,5257,6115,5258,3912,5259,5128,12266,5260,7809,2880,27464,5587,30050,5139,27459,2871,5262,5143,5141,5140,1188,5130,5159,5387,2364,591,64736,314,331,621,637,40589,324,3127,2704,44,5129,323,335,27458,5133,5132,5160,16309,321,2274,5122,13506,25104,17600,5142,5162,5123,588,17601,85,635,11499,155,17599,1190,27460,320,13338,319,333,3920,5161,16090,441,3601,5264,13886,6114,3918],"class_list":["post-158338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angeles","tag-angels","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-bay","tag-blue","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brewers","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-cubs","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-diamondbacks","tag-exclude","tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-from","tag-guardians","tag-jays","tag-logic","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mariners","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nationals","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-orioles","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-paywall","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-playoffs","tag-point","tag-rays","tag-red","tag-reds","tag-rockies","tag-scores","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sox","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-story","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-testing","tag-the","tag-tigers","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-twins","tag-u0026","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-white","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158338","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=158338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}