{"id":2016478,"date":"2025-09-12T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2016478"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:19:07","slug":"guardians-standings-in-wild-card-playoff-race-after-royals-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/guardians-standings-in-wild-card-playoff-race-after-royals-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians standings in wild card playoff race after Royals series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0The Guardians<\/a> have played well enough to remain firmly in the race for the final wild card spot<\/a> in the American League playoff picture. But to a degree, they’re spinning their tires and running out of time to close the gap.<\/p>\n\n

The Guardians took three of four games in a crucial series with the Kansas City Royals, who have also been clinging to any glimmer of hope to make the postseason. Slade Cecconi<\/a> and Joey Cantillo<\/a> delivered outstanding pitching performances, and C.J. Kayfus delivered the biggest home run<\/a> for the Guardians this season to date.<\/p>\n

In the process, the Guardians improved to 75-71 as of the conclusion of the series and moved ahead of the Royals.<\/p>\n

But entering Sept. 12, the Guardians remained 3.5 games back of the final playoff spot, now held by the Houston Astros<\/a> after the Seattle Mariners<\/a> won in comeback fashion and overtook them for the American League West lead. Cleveland has been hovering around that deficit<\/a> for several days.<\/p>\n\n

It’s been enough to remain within striking distance, but it has still left with the Guardians being long shots to secure the sixth and final playoff spot.<\/p>\n

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AL wild card standings, schedule; Astros lead Rangers, Guardians<\/h2>\n\n

Sixteen games remain. The Guardians have a chance to make up some ground over the weekend with a series against the last-place Chicago White Sox<\/a>. They’ll then travel to Detroit for three games before playing a four-game series against the recently-depleted Minnesota Twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The schedule, at least leading up to the final week of the regular season, has the chance to be beneficial for Cleveland.<\/p>\n

FanGraphs’ projections<\/a> see the Guardians needing to get to around 87 wins to really challenge for the postseason, which would mean at least a 12-4 record over the final 16 games.<\/p>\n\n

It leaves Cleveland with little room for error, and a clock that is ticking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.record-courier.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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