Major League Baseball's playoff race is going down to the wire with multiple postseason spots still up for grabs as the 2025 season approaches the final weekend.
The Cleveland Guardians have run down the Tigers atop the American League Central, a shocking comeback that might go down as one of the biggest collapses in baseball history for Detroit. The rivals faced off in Cleveland this week while scoreboard-watching the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox in the wild-card race.
In the National League, the New York Mets fell out of a playoff spot for the first time since the beginning of April and have nearly completed an impressive meltdown of their own, now fighting with the Cincinnati Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks for the final NL wild-card spot.
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