Sentences with phrase «top wild card spot»

In the National League, the Arizona Diamondbacks rebounded from a 93 - loss campaign to capture the top wild card spot with 93 wins in 2017.

That gave Arizona 90 wins, assuring at least a tie for the top Wild Card spot with the Rockies.

Not exact matches

There's also a chance that we'll have a five - way tie for two wild card spots and the top of the AL East, which will create tiebreakers, chaos, more tiebreakers and more chaos.

The Avalanche (40 -25-8) snapped a tie with Anaheim for the top spot in the Western Conference wild - card race and moved within two points of Minnesota for third place in the Central Division.

The second game, the finale, is against the Vikings, and it could be the difference between a top three seed and a wild card spot for both teams.

The top two teams in each conference who don't finish in the top three of their division will take the Wild Card spots.

Dillon Gee is ostensibly the Zack Wheeler replacement, but that won't last long if someone else like Noah Syndergaard or Steven Matz starts pushing him from the minors, and Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom are good enough at the top to let the Mets contend for a wild card spot, even if the division is probably out of reach.

The top three teams in each division — Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, Pacific — earned automatic postseason berths, while the final four spots were given to two wild card teams in each conference based on point totals.