{"id":230718,"date":"2025-09-16T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230718\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:43:12","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-clinch-nl-east-with-win-over-los-angeles-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230718\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL East with win over Los Angeles Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/86088665007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cubs icon Rizzo retires from MLB after 14 seasons<\/p>\n<p>Former Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo has announced his retirement from Major League Baseball after 14 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>unbranded &#8211; Sport<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/summary\/2719812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a 6-5 extra-winnings win<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> on Monday, Sept. 15, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> have secured their second consecutive National League East title.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" data-autotag=\"6232afb4-a4cc-4201-b3b1-1cbad0ddc72b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillies<\/a> clinched a playoff berth on Sunday, Sept. 14. This is the third consecutive season that the Phillies will have 90 or more wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies went on a hot streak to secure the NL title, winning eight of their last 10 games, including a four-game home sweep of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-mets\/245\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Mets<\/a> at Citizens Bank Park on Sept. 8-11.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Phillies also have a chance to catch the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> for the best record in the National League, which would secure home-field advantage through the NLCS, and potentially the World Series as well.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Philly sits 1 1\/2 games behind Milwaukee with 11 games left to play.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Phillies magic number to clinch a first-round bye?<\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, the MLB playoffs have consisted of six teams, with the top two seeds in each league earning first-round byes. The Phillies currently are in position to earn a first-round bye, but will need to outlast the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>. Here is their magic number to clinch a first-round bye:<\/p>\n<p>Phillies remaining schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sept. 16-17:<\/strong> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" data-autotag=\"71975c0f-8b3f-4650-915e-eebafe288e15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 19-21:<\/strong> at Arizona Diamondbacks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 23-25:<\/strong> vs. Miami Marlins<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 26-28:<\/strong> vs. Minnesota Twins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">NIGHTENGALE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/columnist\/bob-nightengale\/2025\/09\/14\/darryl-kile-heart-disease-st-louis-cardinals\/86144898007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Darryl Kile&#8217;s family carries on his legacy decades after shocking death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When do the MLB playoffs begin?<\/p>\n<p>The MLB playoffs begin with the wild-card round on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Should the Phillies earn a first-round bye, they will not have their first playoff game until Saturday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubs icon Rizzo retires from MLB after 14 seasons Former Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo has announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,4231,591,20417,1441,2442,10892,2968,4230,2502,3685,6375,4247,1266,644,663,1571,124395,5382,635,1305,50,72666,124394,450,1457,1448,2830,1311,2083,20414,1451,15776,6166,1926,15779,62,1458,15777,645,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-230718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brewers","12":"tag-championship","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-east","15":"tag-league","16":"tag-los","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-mets","19":"tag-milwaukee","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-modular","23":"tag-modular-story","24":"tag-national","25":"tag-national-league-championship-series","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-new","28":"tag-new-york-mets","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nl","31":"tag-nl-east","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-pa","35":"tag-pennsylvania","36":"tag-philadelphia","37":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","38":"tag-phillies","39":"tag-positive","40":"tag-scores","41":"tag-series","42":"tag-sport","43":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","44":"tag-sports","45":"tag-sports-news","46":"tag-statistics","47":"tag-story","48":"tag-u0026","49":"tag-united-states","50":"tag-united-states-of-america","51":"tag-unitedstates","52":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","53":"tag-us","54":"tag-usa","55":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230718","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=230718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}