MLB Playoff

[Rockslinger]

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Posted September 17, 2013
[h=1]Pennant race standings and projected postseason matchups: September 17[/h]If the season ended today, Pennant Race Standings, Pennant races
By Cliff Corcoran

Standings updated as of 5 pm on Tuesday, September 17.
NOTE: For the remainder of the regular season, The Strike Zone will have a daily post updating the standings relevant to the postseason races. The positive numbers under Games Behind for the wild-card leaders indicate their lead over the third-place team in the race, or how far they are from being knocked out of a playoff spot. The Elimination Number (E#) column indicates the total number of the given team’s losses and leading team’s wins needed to eliminate that team from the race (essentially the reverse of a magic number). The magic number of the leading team is the elimination number of the second-place team. Postseason Odds are from ClayDavenport.com and will be updated in the mornings only.

AL East

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Red Sox 92-59 .609 - - 99.992 Rays 82-67 .550 9.0 4 0.008

AL Central

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Tigers 87-63 .580 - - 99.8 Indians 81-69 .540 6.0 7 0.2

AL West

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Athletics 88-62 .587 - - 99.7 Rangers 81-68 .544 6.5 7 0.3

AL Wild-Card

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Rays 82-67 .547 +1.5 - 76.4 Rangers 81-68 .547 - - 50.1 Indians 81-69 .540 0.5 13 56.4 Orioles 79-70 .530 2.0 12 4.7 Royals 79-71 .527 2.5 11 7.6 Yankees 79-71 .527 2.5 11 4.3

AL Home-field Advantage Throughout Playoffs

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Red Sox 92-59 .609 - - n/a Athletics 88-62 .587 3.5 9 n/a Tigers 87-63 .577 5.5 8 n/a

If the season ended today:

• The Rays would host the Rangers in the Wild Card Game on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
• The Wild Card Game winner would face the Red Sox in the Division Series.
• The A’s would have homefield advantage against the Tigers in the other Division Series.

NL East

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Braves 89-61 .593 - - 99.997 Nationals 78-70 .533 9.0 4 0.003

NL Central

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Cardinals 87-63 .580 - - 48.5 Pirates 87-63 .580 - - 42.4 Reds 85-66 .563 2.5 10 9.2

NL West

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Dodgers 86-64 .573 - - 99.99 Diamondbacks 76-73 .510 9.5 4 0.01

NL Wild-Card

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Cardinals 87-63 .580 +7.5 - 51.4 Pirates 87-63 .580 +7.5 - 57.6 Reds 85-66 .563 - - 89.7 Nationals 80-70 .533 4.5 8 1.3 Diamondbacks 76-73 .510 8.0 5 0.2

NL Home-field Advantage Throughout Playoffs

Team W-L Pct. GB E# Odds Braves 89-60 .597 - - n/a Cardinals 87-63 .580 2.5 11 n/a Pirates 87-63 .580 2.5 11 n/a Dodgers 86-64 .573 3.5 10 n/a

If the season ended today:

• The Pirates and Cardinals would play a tiebreak game in Pittsburgh on Monday, Sept. 30 (homefield advantage determined by Pittsburgh having won the season series between the two teams 10-9) to determine the NL Central champion.
• Loser of the NL Central tiebreaker would host the Reds in the Wild Card Game on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
• Winner of the Wild Card Game would face the Braves in the Division Series
• Winner of the NL Central tiebreaker would have homefield advantage against the Dodgers in the other Division Series.

Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, If the season ended today, MLB, pennant races, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Rays
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[K Douglas]

Some great races, the parity this year is greater than I can ever remember.

 

[Butler1000]

Still too early to guess even in some of the races. I'm hoping the Jays get to play spoiler over the next tww weeks...especially tampa the last weekend.

 

[Rockslinger]

Dodgers, Red Sox and Pirates are playoff bound.

 

[Bargnani_]

Indians must love schedule makers ... In early September they were on the outside looking in and then they get White Sox twice , Twins and the Astros to finish off the season .

 

[Rockslinger]

Tigers are in.

 

[Rockslinger]

Angels are in.

 

[gcostanza]

Angels are in.

Angels are in a lot of trouble with some of their long term contracts.

Other than that, the Angels aren't in much of anything.

 

[Rockslinger]

The Jays' last game of the season is a very meaningful game ----- for the Rays.

 

[Rockslinger]

Can we talk playoffs now? So who's in? Dodgers, Tigers, Angels, Pirates, etc., etc.

 

[gcostanza]

Can we talk playoffs now? So who's in? Dodgers, Tigers, Angels, Pirates, etc., etc.

Angels still aren't in the playoffs.

 

[Stradler]

Tampa vs Texas...game 163..winner goes to the sudden death wild card game.

 

[shack]

Angels still aren't in the playoffs.

And in related news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead,

 

[gcostanza]

Tampa vs Texas...game 163..winner goes to the sudden death wild card game.

So it's kind of a sudden stay of execution game....for at least one day.

 

[teassoc]

Tampa got a big slice of luck with their last game vs Jays. Despite giving up 6 runs in the first innings the Jays very nearly recovered to win. It was only a very rare poor start by Redmond and relief pitching by Wagner that virtually gave the game away.

Good luck to Texas.

 

[Rockslinger]

Rays are in. Let the games begin!

 

[gcostanza]

Rays are in. Let the games begin!

How about those Angels!?

 

[Rockslinger]

How about those Angels!?

The guy on the radio screwed up.

 

[gcostanza]

He's not the only one.

 

[Rockslinger]

He's not the only one.

Just goes to show that you can't believe everything you hear on the radio, read in the newspaper or see on the Internet. Even Costanza isn't perfect.