Both Toronto and Tampa Bay have a better record than the NL Central leader. Despite owning the best record in baseball, the Yankees are only three games ahead of the third-place Blue Jays in the AL East. The standings could radically change over the next few months. Louis Cardinals (15-10) in a wild-card series.Īs the top wild-card team, the San Diego Padres (17-9) are in line to host the Colorado Rockies (15-10). The New York Mets (19-9) are in the playoffs as the top team in the NL East. The Houston Astros (15-11) are the final AL wild-card team and on track to visit Minnesota for a three-game series. Tampa Bay hosts the Toronto Blue Jays (16-11) in the latest playoff bracket.
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The Tampa Bay Rays (16-10) lead the AL wild-card standings and would host a wild-card series as the No. The Minnesota Twins (15-11) lead the AL Central and are in line to have home-field advantage in the wild-card round as the No. The overwhelming World Series since the offseason, the Dodgers lead MLB with a miniscule 2.21 ERA through 23 games. It’s no surprise to see the Dodgers with the NL’s best record. The Yankees lead the AL in runs per game and ERA. Anthony Rizzo and Aaron Judge are tied for an MLB-high nine home runs. New York just had an 11-game losing streak snapped. 1 seed and sit atop the overall MLB standings.
The Los Angeles Dodgers (16-7) and Milwaukee Brewers (18-8) would clinch a spot in the NLDS. If the 2022 season ended after a month, the New York Yankees (18-7) and Los Angeles Angels (17-10) would receive an automatic berth to the ALDS. The higher-seeded team in each wild-card matchup will host every game in a best-of-three series. The remaining eight MLB playoff teams will compete in the wild-card round. The teams with the two-best records in each league get a bye to the division series. In addition to the three division winners from each league, the AL and NL will have three wild-card teams apiece. MLB’s new playoff format has expanded the postseason from 10 to 12 teams. Because games in April count as much in the standings as games in September, the league’s top teams have given themselves a strong chance to play October baseball. The Cardinals’ losses at home dropped them out of the second Wild Card spot, and were eliminated on Saturday.īoth the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies spent weeks in first place in their division this year, but a late fade knocked both out before the final week of the season.The 2022 MLB season is only a month old, but it’s never too early to take a look at the playoff bracket. 500 before Mike Matheny was fired on July 14. Louis Cardinals finished 40-28 under new manager Mike Shildt, after struggling to just a game over. The Rockies won eight in a row after getting swept and the Dodgers needed a sweep in San Francisco in the final weekend to even things up. But they followed that up by splitting their next six games, allowing Colorado to pass them in the NL West. The Dodgers surged to the top of the division with an 18-7 stretch, even building a 2½-game lead after sweeping the Rockies. 28, Milwaukee surged back atop the division race thanks to 22 wins in 29 games. However, after falling a season-worst six games behind Chicago on Aug. The Brewers were in first place in the National League Central for 69 days this season, but have mostly trailed since the All-Star game. The will play the NL West runner-up.īoth divisions will be decided on Monday, with two tiebreakers - one in Chicago and one in Los Angeles. The NL Central runner-up will host the Wild Card Game, to be played on Tuesday, Oct.
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