{"id":133436,"date":"2025-09-10T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133436\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:46:28","slug":"mlb-playoff-bracket-wild-card-standings-al-and-nl-division-standings-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133436\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB playoff bracket: Wild card standings, AL and NL division standings 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than three weeks remain in the 2025 Major League Baseball <\/a>regular season and while the field is largely set in stone, at least three division races will go down to the wire and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> and New York Mets<\/a> will have to fight off challengers for the final wild card spots.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> have buried the Mets in the NL East, while New York’s four-game losing streak opened things up for the Giants, Reds, Diamondbacks and Cardinals to get within 4.5 games for the NL’s final wild card spot.<\/p>\n

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Meawhile, the Texas Rangers<\/a> have been red-hot and enter Wednesday trailing the Houston Astros by just one game in the AL West.<\/p>\n

RED SOX: Alex Bregman is ‘built for Boston’ taking heading to playoffs again<\/a><\/p>\n

DODGERS: Will mediocre champions get on their ‘big boy pants’?<\/a><\/p>\n

The regular season ends on Sunday, September 28, with the best-of-three wild card series beginning two days later. The top two division winners in each league advance directly to the Division Series.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a look at the latest standings and bracket:<\/p>\n

Through games played Tuesday, Sept. 9MLB playoff bracket if season ended todayAmerican League<\/p>\n

AL wild card series<\/p>\n

Yankees vs. Red Sox (virtual tie, Red Sox hold head-to-head tiebreaker)<\/p>\n

National LeagueAL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Rays (72-72): 4.5 GB<\/p>\n

NL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

AL East<\/p>\n

New York Yankees (80-64): 3 games back<\/p>\n

Boston Red Sox (81-65): 3 GB<\/p>\n

AL Central<\/p>\n

Cleveland Guardians (74-70): 8.5 GB<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals (73-72): 10 GB<\/p>\n

AL West<\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners (77-68): 1 GB<\/p>\n

Texas Rangers (76-70): 2.5 GB<\/p>\n

NL East<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Phillies (85-60)<\/p>\n

New York Mets (76-69): 9 GB<\/p>\n

NL Central<\/p>\n

Milwaukee Brewers (89-57)<\/p>\n

NL West<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers (81-64)<\/p>\n

San Diego Padres (79-66): 2 GB<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: MLB wild card standings, 2025 playoff picture, bracket, AL and NL race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than three weeks remain in the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season and while the field is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7679,1513,3333,7671,49,48,6396,491,1501,490,14252,511,1506,474,501,462,475,72683,7673,481,1491,1521,512,470,82,480,3992,72682,72684,1505],"class_list":["post-133436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-blue-jays","tag-boston","tag-brewers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cardinals","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cubs","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-houston-astros","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-nl-east","tag-padres","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-reds","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas-rangers","tag-wild-card-series","tag-wild-card-spot","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}