The MLB Playoff Race is Tearing Teams Apart
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What is the current status of the MLB playoff race with 27 days left?
27 days left in the MLB season. There are currently 19 teams in contention. That means there's been a couple teams this week that have been in this playoff race, it's tearing teams apart. Some teams are trying to steal signs. There's fights over sign stealing this week. Some players are trying to run out of the base pass and screaming at umpires. Some players are screaming at themselves in the dugout, thinking that will help. The Giants lost it on an umpire for this call. Called Fair. According to the Giants.
How are sign‑stealing controversies affecting team dynamics this week?
Giants foul by a mile. Tony Vitel loses it all the umpire. Logan Webb wasn't even in the game, loses it all on the umpire. They get ejected. Then the very next day, the bench coach is coming out to give the lineup card before the game. The Giants do this thing where they have an honorary fan get to bring out the lineup card, and the bench coach just starts screaming at the umpire, loses it on the umpire in front of the honorary fan and gets ejected from the game in front of the honorary fan. Fan. We got another squirrel on the field, guys. So a week after there was a raccoon underneath the field in the stands, now they got a squirrel at City Field. That's the best thing the Mets got going for them is the wildlife in the stadium.
According to fangrafts, the NL wildcard team, as of today, is projected to need to win 86 games to make a playoff spot.
Why did the Giants’ bench coach get ejected in front of an honorary fan?
You don't win 86 games, you're probably not in a playoff spot. The pirates had 65 wins on City. Saturday. Top of the sixth inning, they had a ground ball to Jacob Gonzalez. Can't feel it. Very next at bat. Another ball.
This is unreal. Can't feel it.
The very next at bat fly to center field.
But Cruz is right there.
Oh, Nell Cruz can't field it. So the Pirates make errors on back-to-back-to-back plays. The Pirates. Have officially been eliminated for playoff contention, according to the podcast doesn't exist. The Pirates were in the American League though. They only be two games back. American league teams are projected to only need eighty-one wins to make the playoffs. The Orioles came into this week with sixty-three wins. Luckily, they got to play the athletics. Colton Cows are here to win to second. Kowser sharply to second. That ate up Gellow. Athletics can't field it. Right fielder gets it, throws it to first base. He can't field it.
Oh, and then Butler tries to throw behind Kowser.
And then the ball gets kicked into the dugout here.
Heim kicked it into the dugout.
What unusual wildlife incidents have occurred at MLB ballparks recently?
He gets to go to third. Then the very next pitch to gain.
This pitch sails away. Da
We just want to cover the athletics who have also been eliminated from playoff contention. However, that happened probably like two months ago. However, the Orioles, they entered the week with only 10% playoff odds, two games back of a playoff spot. Pete Alonso in August has nine home runs, 22 RBIs, is betting 343 with a 1,050 OPS. He's quietly having a career year. On Sunday, he gets hit face. Pete Alonso in the hand. I'd had to lead the game, but apparently he stayed in the dugout. At the moment, it didn't look like he was shaken up too bad.
How many wins does a National League team need to secure a wildcard spot?
Thoughts impete to Pete Alonso. That is worrisome if you're an Orioles fan because this offense has been carried by Pete Alonzo. They went five and one this week. They've won seven of their last nine games and are just one game back of a playoff spot now. And they are behind the Blue Jays and Guardians for the last playoff spot. The other teams in the AL fighting for a spot are the Astros, the ranked. The Twins and the Mariners. The Cubs turned 150 years old this year. On Saturday, they had a pregame ceremony to honor all the Cubs legends. Samuel Sosa was there, and he told P. Crow Armstrong before the game, I'm not satisfied. I want three out of you today. I need three home runs. In the very first inning.
Drill right center field. That one back on its way.
Eighth lead-off home run of the year for Pico Armstrong. The very next inning.
In the boot. That's hammered. Right field, and it's fair. It's gone, and it is.
Two home runs and two innings. Then in the seventh inning comes up again.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the current status of the MLB playoff race with 27 days left?
0:00–0:25
2
How are sign‑stealing controversies affecting team dynamics this week?
0:25–1:10
3
Why did the Giants’ bench coach get ejected in front of an honorary fan?
1:10–2:18
4
What unusual wildlife incidents have occurred at MLB ballparks recently?
2:18–2:59
5
How many wins does a National League team need to secure a wildcard spot?
2:59–4:36
6
Which teams have been eliminated from playoff contention and why?
4:36–6:44
7
What impact did Pete Alonso’s injury have on the Orioles’ playoff odds?
6:44–16:23