{"id":156755,"date":"2025-09-20T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156755\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:21:07","slug":"dodgers-clinch-mlb-playoff-spot-for-13th-consecutive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156755\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers clinch MLB playoff spot for 13th consecutive season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mets collapse opens door for surprise NL Wild Card race down the stretch<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale breaks down the top storylines to watch in the NL as the MLB season winds down.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are going to the postseason for a 13th consecutive season.<\/p>\n

The defending World Series champions clinched a spot in the playoffs via the Philadelphia Phillies’ 8-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. For good measure, Los Angeles defeated the rival San Francisco Giants a short time later to improve to 87-67 this season and remain atop the NL West with the San Diego Padres now sitting 4 games back.<\/p>\n

MLB playoff bracket: Wild card standings, 2025 AL and NL division standings<\/a><\/p>\n

Dodgers’ playoff matchup if season ended Friday, Sept. 19<\/p>\n

The Dodgers would host the New York Mets<\/a> in an NL wild card series. The Padres would travel to play the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies would have a bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets collapse opens door for surprise NL Wild Card race down the stretch USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3044,3307,49,3335,82227,48,511,3242,3043,487,462,1327,1342,47,2349,2034,44,1333,2042,56410,82,865,1320],"class_list":["post-156755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angeles","tag-baseball","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-gold-rush","tag-canada","tag-dodgers","tag-gold","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-rush","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156755","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=156755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}