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The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> may have lost to the Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Sunday (box score<\/a>), but they nonetheless became the second team to clinch a spot in the postseason thanks to some help from the team they’ll play next. Indeed, the Phillies secured a playoff berth when the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> took down the San Francisco Giants<\/a> by a 10-2 final (box score<\/a>) on Sunday.<\/p>\n While the Phillies are now assured a spot in the tournament, they were denied their second consecutive division title for at least one more day. Philadelphia would have wrapped up the National League East crown with both a win and a New York Mets<\/a> loss. The Mets defeated the Texas Rangers, however, snapping their own eight-game losing streak in walk-off fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Phillies and Dodgers will begin a three-game set on Monday that has obvious playoff implications. The Phillies will enter 4 1\/2 games in front of the Dodgers for the second seed in the NL playoff field — an important position given the top two seeds both get first-round byes, and the compromised state of the Phillies roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not only is Philadelphia without ace Zack Wheeler<\/a> (thoracic outlet decompression surgery), but they’ll also have to go at it without high-leverage reliever Jose Alvarado<\/a> (injured and ineligible for the playoffs because of a suspension earlier this year) and with both shortstop Trea Turner<\/a> (hamstring) and third baseman Alec Bohm<\/a> (shoulder) dealing with physical ailments.<\/p>\n “We all know what’s at stake,” slugger Kyle Schwarber told reporters<\/a>. “I don’t think that’s going to make us want to try harder or anything like that. We have to stay within ourselves and play our style of baseball.”<\/p>\n As noted above, the Phillies are the second team to secure a playoff berth. The Milwaukee Brewers became the first earlier this weekend<\/a>. The Dodgers, Chicago Cubs<\/a>, Detroit Tigers<\/a>, and Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are all in position to join those clubs over the course of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Philadelphia Phillies may have lost to the Kansas City Royals on Sunday (box score), but…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[11318,5229,122871,8321,1266,1448,2830,1311,2083,3695,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,3683],"class_list":{"0":"post-227489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-alec-bohm","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-jose-alvarado","11":"tag-kyle-schwarber","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","17":"tag-trea-turner","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-zack-wheeler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205631117521837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}