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Through Saturday's games
x-clinched division title; y-clinched wild card
Tiebreakers Home-field advantage in the NLDS: The Cardinals beat the D-Backs in the season series, so if the two finish with the same record St. Louis will get home-field advantage in the first round of the NL playoffs.
Playoff matchups
American League Home-field order for ALCS: New York, Oakland, Minnesota, Anaheim (wild card cannot have home-field advantage)
National League Home-field order for NLCS: Atlanta, Arizona, St. Louis, San Francisco
Momentum meter
Diamondbacks:
Sunday's games of the day Remember when Benes retired back in spring training? Now he'll be in the postseason rotation and he's allowed more than two runs just once in his past 10 starts (and that time he allowed just three runs.) And, in the absolute weakest move of the year, Jose Hernandez will likely sit again for Milwaukee, leaving him one K short of the single-single strikeout record. St. Louis needs to win and Arizona to lose to gain home field over the D-Backs. Colorado at Arizona, Denny Stark (11-3, 3.69) vs. John Patterson (1-0, 3.16) Stark, a rookie, has been terrific for the Rockies of late, as he's 4-0 with a 2.72 ERA over his last eight starts. And he was dazzling in his last outing, pitching seven shutout innings on Tuesday as Colorado beat the Dodgers 1-0. Patterson will be making just his fifth start of the season.
The Numbers Watch Vladimir Guerrero: Hit a deep fly ball off the top off the wall, just missing his 40th home run of the season Saturday, and just missing admission into the 40-40 club. Sammy Sosa: The Cubs rallied past the Pirates on Saturday, but Sosa went 0-for-3 to remain stuck on 498 career home runs, and 48 this season. |
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