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Sunday in the NL Wild Card race:  Cubs lose to the Bucs 4-3, Phillies beat Atlanta, Arizona loses to Texas, and San Diego plays at San Francisco tonight. Arizona's loss dropped the CMN for a Wild Card berth!

 

Cubs Magic Numbers:

Division:  23
1st Wild Card & Home Field:  12
Wild Card:  8

See this post for CMN calculation details. 

Here's how the Cubs' remaining schedule shapes up: 

3 vs. 88-61 Atlanta
3 at 69-79 Cincinnati
3 vs. 73-76 Miami
3 at 81-68 Boston

The Cubs currently sit atop the NL Wild Card race and its benefit of home field for all NLWCS games, as they have the same record as the Phillies but hold the tiebreaker (a 6-1 record in the season series).

 

The North Siders sit four games ahead of Arizona for the final Wild Card berth, and they hold the tiebreaker there as well with a 4-2 record against the Diamondbacks.

 

And in the Central, the Men in Blue are ten games back of Milwaukee, whose magic number to win the division is down to two.

148 games down, 12 to go.

Go Cubs go!

Hall of Famer and Cubs Legend Andre Dawson