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The Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals have made it through the first two rounds of the postseason and will square off in the 2013 World Series. Boston will enjoy home field advantage in the Series because some Rangers and Orioles and Twins beat some Rockies and Marlins and Brewers in July (sounds silly when you put it that way, doesn’t it?).
The Braves had lost seven straight playoff games heading into Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Thursday night, and came out on the other side with another loss after falling to Los Angeles, 6-1.
The Tampa Rays needed to go to Texas on Monday and beat the Rangers in a tiebreaker game just to mkae the Wild Card play-in game. Now they’ll face sudden elimination for the second time in three days when they take on the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in the first American League playoff game of the season.
Well, 162 games and things still are not figured out, as the Rangers host the Rays in the winner-take-all play in game for the last AL Wild Card spot. The Rangers slumped badly in the last month of the season, but recovered and made it to this game after winning their last 7 of the season.
The Royals are still in the playoff race, but they need to finish the season strong and get some help. They are 3.5 games out of the Wild Card and making the post-season will not be easy, as their remaining 7 games are on the road.
The Red Sox are starting to run away with the AL East with a 9.5 game lead over the Orioles and a 10 game lead over the Yankees, so New York and Baltimore will likely have to snag a Wild Card to make the playoffs.
The Red Sox have won 3 straight and they are in first place in the AL East with a 2.5 game lead over the Rays and a 6.5 game lead over the Orioles.
The Cardinals are tied with the Pirates atop the NL Central with the Reds lurking, as they are only 2.5 games back. The Reds are in good shape even if they do not win the NL Central, as they are in the Wild Card lead with a big 7-game lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Boston did not show very well last night in this series opener between first place teams getting shutout on the West Coast. Yesterday they had just two hits off of Ricky Nolasco and things won’t get much easier this afternoon.
Oakland currently sits in the final AL Wild Card position but things are tightly bunched with three teams all within a three and a half games of the A’s.
The Atlanta Braves have the best record in the Majors and should be pumped to face off with a potential playoff opponent in St. Louis.
The Yankees have been playing well as of late winning 3 straight and 8 of their last 10, but they are still in 4th place in the AL East 6.5 games back of the Red Sox.
The Reds are in the heart of their division race in 3rd place in the NL Central 3.5 games back of the St. Louis Cardinals. While the D-Backs are in 2nd place in the NL West they are 7.5 games back of the red-hot Dodgers. MLB lines have the Reds as the home favorite with a total of 7.5 runs.
The Rays and Orioles are both chasing the Boston Red Sox in the AL East with Tampa Bay 1 game back of Boston with Baltimore 4.5 games back.
Except for a couple of runs the Arizona Diamondbacks couldn’t solve Pittsburgh rookie Gerrit Cole in dropping the first game of their series last night.
The Giants and Marlins combined for a week’s worth of offense in their opener Friday night with the Giants winning 14-10. San Francisco cranked out 19 hits with OF Hunter Pence and 3B Pablo Sandoval going a combined 7 for 10 with 8 RBI.
