{"id":159109,"date":"2025-09-21T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:26:12","slug":"2025-mlb-postseason-magic-number-for-cincinnati-reds-to-make-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159109\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 MLB postseason: Magic number for Cincinnati Reds to make playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Andrew Abbott<\/a> and Elly De La Cruz<\/a> leading the way, the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> are trying to return to the MLB playoffs<\/a> for the first time in five seasons and the first time in a 162-game season since 2013.<\/p>\n

This is how things stand entering play<\/a> on Sunday, Sept. 21:<\/p>\n

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What is the Reds’ magic number to make the 2025 MLB postseason<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Reds’ elimination number for final NL wild card: 8 (Cincinnati trails the New York Mets by one game but owns the tiebreaker having won the season series.)<\/p>\n

Latest MLB standingsAmerican League:<\/p>\n

AL East:<\/p>\n

AL Central:<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals: 78-77<\/p>\n

AL West:<\/p>\n

AL Wild Card:<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals: 78-77<\/p>\n

National League:<\/p>\n

NL East:<\/p>\n

y-Philadelphia Phillies: 92-63<\/p>\n

NL Central:<\/p>\n

St. Louis Cardinals: 75-80<\/p>\n

NL West:<\/p>\n

x-Los Angeles Dodgers: 88-67<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants: 76-79<\/p>\n

NL Wild Card:<\/p>\n

Arizona Diamondbacks: 78-77<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants: 76-79<\/p>\n

St. Louis Cardinals: 75-80<\/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

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Reds magic number: Standings and games to make MLB playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Andrew Abbott and Elly De La Cruz leading the way, the Cincinnati Reds are trying to return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[9012,31170,485,3959,7671,49,48,3983,472,491,1501,490,511,14260,1506,474,3981,462,56605,1519,475,3980,7669,1498,7672,4783,1500,477,512,470,82,3982,3992,507,1497],"class_list":["post-159109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-american-league","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brewers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cubs","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dodgers","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-houston-astros","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-nationals","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-orioles","tag-phillies","tag-pirates","tag-rays","tag-rockies","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-texas-rangers","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159109","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=159109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}