MLB Wild Card Race Heats Up: Teams to Watch Down the Stretch

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00:00All right, now let's take a look at the wild card scenario, because I think that is what's

00:07going to go down to the last day of the season.

00:08It nearly did last year, Matt, as you know, and again, Arizona coming down to the last

00:13day.

00:14They end up going to the World Series.

00:15So you got to fight.

00:16Braves are 54 and 44.

00:19I feel really good about them, and I think they'll probably tinker a little bit with

00:22their team.

00:24So I probably have them in.

00:26But Matt, after that, I don't know.

00:27The Cardinals started off so poor, they've been two different teams this season.

00:32Mets just lost two out of three to Miami.

00:35Arizona's finally picked it up here a little bit.

00:36I have some confidence in them.

00:39San Diego's two games over.

00:40We know it's a hugely important season for them to get back into the postseason.

00:44And by the way, the Pirates are right there one game over, too.

00:48And I kind of feel like the Pirates also are another team, Matt, that they're not going

00:51to sit back at the deadline.

00:52But there's only three spots for those six teams, and we didn't even do the Cubs or the

00:56Reds.

00:58I think those teams right now kind of feel like they're hanging around, too.

01:01Too close to call, it feels like, right?

01:04All these teams?

01:05Yeah.

01:06It is really tough.

01:07Like you said, the Braves have a four-game lead right now on dropping out of the wild

01:12card.

01:13So even as the injuries mount for them, you still feel like that's enough of a head start

01:17and they still have enough talent.

01:18But the rest of those teams, yeah, mix them up in a hat and pick names.

01:22You know, the Pirates are the most interesting.

01:23They're the hottest team right now.

01:25We know about Skeen's Mania.

01:27I don't know if they really want to get in there, honestly.

01:30They're already a little worried, I think, about Skeen's Mania and to get another start

01:34too or potentially more in the postseason scares them.

01:37But obviously they're going to go for it.

01:39I mean, at least the players on the field are.

01:42I don't know if they're going to make any big deals.

01:44But yeah, there's a lot of talent there.

01:46I think you mentioned the Padres.

01:47They're a team that I would think can get it together and do enough to get in.

01:51But I mean, yeah, there's no way of knowing those final two spots.

01:54It's going to just be kind of a mad rush down the stretch.

01:57And like you said, there might be a team you just didn't post on that graphic that really

02:02gets hot and really gets going and jumps in there.

02:05There's plenty of good ones within four games.

02:08But when you have that many teams, four games is a lot to jump over.

02:12If it's just like there's two teams, one needs to make up four games, you can see it happening.

02:16But when there's that many teams in your way, it's tough to see like the Nationals getting

02:19in there.

02:20But it's going to be a fun race down the stretch.

02:22There's no question about it.

02:24Yeah.

02:25Yeah.

02:26Yeah.

02:27Yeah.

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