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The division has five teams as of the 2013 season, but had four teams from 1994 to 2012, and had as many as seven teams before the 1994 realignment. Although its teams currently only reside along the West Coast and in Texas , historically the division has had teams as far east as Chicago and Minnesota .
But the Mets proceeded to win 37 of their last 48 games while the Cubs went 20–28 in the same time period and the Mets won the division by 8 games. In the West, with 3 weeks to play in the season, 5 teams were all within 2 games of each other. The Houston Astros were the first to drop out of the race, losing 8 of 10.
The Chicago White Sox celebrate after defeating the Minnesota Twins 1–0 to win the 2008 American League Central. A tie-breaker was required in Major League Baseball (MLB) when two or more teams were tied at the end of the regular season for a postseason position such as a league pennant (prior to the introduction of the League Championship Series in 1969), a division title, or a wild card spot.
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.
The quest to the 2024 World Series begins Tuesday as the final games of the MLB regular season wrapped up Monday. ... latest 2024 division standings. 2024 MLB postseason schedule, results:
Six weeks remain in the 2024 MLB regular season, and each team still has about 40 games left to play. As the season winds down, the playoff race will only continue to heat up. With just over a ...
This penultimate week of regular-season play featured two highly consequential matchups, with Minnesota in Cleveland for four games and the red-hot Tigers paying a visit to Kansas City for three.
In contrast, a 2008 AL Central division game between Detroit and the Chicago White Sox needed to be made up following the last day of the regular season because it played a part in the division race involving the White Sox and the Minnesota Twins. From 1953 to 1981, Harry Simmons was responsible for devising the Major League Baseball schedule ...