{"id":240784,"date":"2025-09-20T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:16:15","slug":"dodgers-clinch-mlb-playoff-spot-for-13th-consecutive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240784\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers clinch MLB playoff spot for 13th consecutive season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mets collapse opens door for surprise NL Wild Card race down the stretch<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale breaks down the top storylines to watch in the NL as the MLB season winds down.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are going to the postseason for a 13th consecutive season.<\/p>\n

The defending World Series champions clinched a spot in the playoffs via the Philadelphia Phillies’ 8-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. For good measure, Los Angeles defeated the rival San Francisco Giants a short time later to improve to 87-67 this season and remain atop the NL West with the San Diego Padres now sitting 4 games back.<\/p>\n

MLB playoff bracket: <\/strong>Wild card standings, 2025 AL and NL division standings<\/a><\/p>\n

Dodgers’ playoff matchup if season ended Friday, Sept. 19<\/p>\n

The Dodgers would host the New York Mets<\/a> in an NL wild card series. The Padres would travel to play the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies would have a bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets collapse opens door for surprise NL Wild Card race down the stretch USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,591,1582,276,128691,2442,9401,2961,4230,224,2502,5337,1266,644,663,1571,5382,942,50,450,950,99667,62,1458,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-240784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-gold-rush","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-gold","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-modular","22":"tag-modular-story","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-neutral","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-neutral","29":"tag-rush","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-story"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115235165598901866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240784","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=240784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}