NL Wild-Card Race Is Heating Up!

The National league divisional races, are close to being clinched. However, the wild-card race is heating up. The Atlanta Braves are currently up by 2 1/2 games on the St. Louis Cardinals and 3 1/2 games up on the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants.

Going into last nights game Atlanta was up by 3 1/2 games on the Cardinals, until they lost to the Florida Marlins 6-5. While St Louis defeated Philadelphia 4-3. The three team wild-card race is heating up and a lot of scoreboard watching will be going on the rest of the season. The NL wild-card race is so intense, it's as good as the playoffs.

The defending World Champion San Francisco Giants are currently 5 1/2 games behind Arizona and the St. Louis Cardinal are also 5 1/2 games behind Milwaukee. The only way Atlanta can make the playoffs is by winning the wild-card race, where as both St. Louis and San Francisco have an outside shot at winning their division.

Wild-Card Race and Remaining Schedules Below:

Wild-Card Standings

Team                W      L        PCT        GB
Atlanta               87    67        .565           -
St. Louis            84    69        .549        2 1/2
San Francisco    83    70        .542        3 1/2

Remaining Schedules:

Atlanta

9-20-21 at Florida
9-22-25 at Washington
9-26-28 vs Philadelphia

St. Louis

9-20-22 vs New York
9-23-25 vs Chicago
9-26-28 at Houston

San Francisco

9-20-22 at Los Angeles
9-23-25 at Arizona
9-26-28 vs Colorado

For the National League wild-card race, all you can say is "GAME ON."

Other Major League News:

Boston Redsox split twin-bill with the Baltimore Orioles, to maintain a 2 game lead in AL wild-card race.
Yankees' Mariano Rivera tops the Major League saves list, with 602.
Angels lose to Toronto 3-2, to fall 5 games behind the Texas Rangers.