The Miami Marlins are heading again to the postseason. The Marlins clinched a wild-card spot with their win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday evening (MIA 6, PIT 3). This is Miami’s first postseason look since 2020 and the franchise’s first in a 162-game season since 2003, once they received the World Series.
Here is the up to date NL postseason bracket:
The D-Backs have now not but clinched a postseason berth, regardless that they’ll achieve this with their subsequent win or the following losses by means of each the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds. The Marlins have the similar document as Arizona (84-76) with their Saturday evening win and dangle the tiebreaker over Arizona. The Diamondbacks are these days webhosting the Astros in a recreation with playoff implications in each leagues.
The Braves (NL East champ), Brewers (NL Central champ), Dodgers (NL West champ), and Phillies (best wild-card) are all locked into their postseason spots. No motion is imaginable there.
Even with Saturday’s win, the Marlins are relatively actually limping into the postseason. NL batting champ Luis Arraez has now not performed since Sept. 23 as a result of he stepped on a baseball all the way through a pregame exercise on Sept. 19, and sprained his left ankle. He additional annoyed the harm a couple of days later. Arraez used to be noticed strolling with a noticeable limp and along with his ankle wrapped Wednesday.
Furthermore, reigning NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara and hotshot rookie Eury Pérez won’t pitch once more this 12 months; Alcantara has an elbow harm and Pérez a hip factor. The Marlins have leaned closely on Braxton Garrett and Jesús Luzardo in fresh weeks. They’ve used a sequence of openers and bullpen video games in the opposite rotation spots.
The Marlins are handiest the tenth workforce ever to make the postseason with a adverse run differential, and handiest the 7th to achieve this in a 162-game season (3 groups did it in 2020). In reality, Miami’s minus-54 run differential would be the worst ever for a postseason workforce. The 2005 San Diego Padres up to now held that difference with a minus-42 run differential.
Miami overcame that run differential thank you to an improbable 33-13 document in one-run video games. A 12 months in the past, they went 24-40 in one-run video games, probably the most such losses since the 1975 Houston Astros went 16-41 in one-run video games. This 12 months’s Marlins are successful the tight video games ultimate 12 months’s Marlins may just now not, and now they are going to the postseason as a praise.
It will have to be famous the Marlins clinching a postseason berth makes it much less most probably Friday’s suspended recreation towards the New York Mets might be finished Monday. If that recreation is wanted to decide postseason seeding between the Marlins and D-Backs, it may well be performed, however it is imaginable that might be settled Sunday. Obviously Miami would like to have Monday off.