Dodgers and Yankees score in the big top

Already in the last month of Major League Baseball’s regular agenda for the American and National Major Leagues, we’re starting to see what the postseason schedule might look like, keeping in mind that the top two leaders of the three divisions will square off for the league title, starting with what they call the Division Series. Wild card series favorites can wait to receive the needed win in their respective stadiums, which will consist of the third best place among the team leaders. The division, which is classified as number three, and the other three contenders are the next teams, which have the best success percentage between wins and losses as a result of not reaching the highest level in the standings in their respective regions. And as it is known, once the keys to the division series are defined, classified as numbers one and two, the winners of the series between three, four, five and six, heading for the playoffs, the winners will get these series they face and then the championship. goes to the series. That is in every league.

In the battle for the pennant, the highest honor in each division in each league, the battle is as follows:

In the National League West division, the Los Angeles Dodgers continue as the spearhead, albeit without a major advantage over their next pursuers. And even though he’s headed for victory, mathematically he could be disputed by the San Diego Padres, who are five and a half games away from yesterday’s cutoff, and the Arizona Diamondbacks at seven.

In the Eastern sector, the Philadelphia Phillies also kept a sustained pace, practically always leading the division, with a comfortable lead, defeating the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets, six and a half and seven and a half games away.

And in the Central Division, with a more difficult margin, the Milwaukee Brewers are going to win if nothing unusual happens, since the gap with the Chicago Cubs is already wide and practically far, 11 games away, Sun Cardinals Lewis.

In the American League, the battle is fierce in the highly competitive Eastern Division, where the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees are currently at the top of the pack by a wide margin over the Boston Red Sox, who, however, will still have little chance of engaging in the wild card battle at the postseason’s big party.

In the central zone, the Cleveland Guardians are narrowly ahead of their closest competitors, the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals, three and a half games away from yesterday’s cutoff.

Meanwhile, in the Western Division, the Houston Astros, who have continued their good momentum after their disastrous start to the season, are ahead, already going into the next round with a five-game lead over the Seattle Mariners, without Seattle being eliminated from the wild card contention.

Such that, in the national team, either as the better-established leaders with a direct pass to the division series or to form groups of four teams who will face each other in the series to win two out of three matches to get the other two tickets. At that point in the league’s dominance, the Dodgers, Phillies and Brewers had virtually secured their spots. And also with a high probability of achieving it, the Padres, Diamondbacks and Braves and although with a lower probability according to the current visualization, the Mets.

In the American League, the Yankees, Orioles, and Guardians are almost certain to dominate the league by forming a group of four teams that will face each other in the series, either as the better-established leaders with an outright advance to the division series, or to win two of three games to clinch the remaining two tickets to that stage. . The Astros, Twins, and Royals also have a great chance of getting it, and although with less chance according to current visualizations, the Red Sox, Tigers, and Mariners could also get it, but the possibility for Tampa Bay’s Mantraray can’t be ruled out, even if it’s remote.