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The battle between Los Angeles and Colorado remains the closest race to baseball, but there is plenty of action in the N.L. Central, where the cardinals make a late run on first place.
With less than two weeks left in the regular season, 12 teams played in Tuesday's games with less than five games remaining in 10 playoffs. The Boston Red Sox had the chance to win a division title with a win Tuesday – they failed – while at the other end of the group, the Arizona Diamondbacks were eliminated from the National League and map.
The main action continued to be in Los Angeles, where the Dodgers claim control of the Western National League as the Rockies attempt to survive an injury to the star of Trevor Story.
Here's where the various playoff races take place at the end of Tuesday night's games:
Tuesday's scores
National League West
The Dodgers lead the Rockies by a game and a half.
Chris Taylor's home run at the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Dodgers a 3-2 win over the Rockies and assured that no matter who wins the final of the three games between the two teams, Los Angeles will be in the lead. NL West.
The enthusiasm was high for Colorado on Monday when they started the series with a half-game lead over the Dodgers, but between consecutive losses and elbow injuries at Story, everything was up against them until present.
Colorado player Kyle Freeland, who essentially beat Clayton Kershaw, the three-time Dodger Cy Young Award winner, lost seven innings. Freeland allowed two earned runs in six innings and two-thirds, eliminating four points, while Kershaw allowed two runs (one earned) in seven innings, eliminating three points.
In the third and final game of the series on Wednesday, Colorado will launch Tyler Anderson against sensational rookie Dodgers Walker Buehler.
National League Central
The Chicago Cubs lead the Milwaukee Brewers by three and a half games.
The Cubs had some leeway in the division's heat thanks to their 9-1 win over the Diamondbacks and the Brewers' 3-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
On the road in Arizona, Chicago has secured home runs from Daniel Murphy and Javier Baez, the latter continuing his quest for the best player award. Overall, the 10-man Cubs had at least one shot in a game where Arizona starter Matt Andriese lasted only two innings, allowing five hits and five earned runs.
In a memorable sequence in the first run, Anthony Rizzo made 17 shots against Andriese. Rizzo lost the battle when it was short, but three shots later, Andriese, probably shot from Rizzo at bat, left a slider in the area that Baez dropped into the seats for a two-run homer.
In Milwaukee, Chase Anderson could not get out of round four and, while allowing just three runs, it was enough to defeat the Brewers against the Reds. Cincinnati took a quick start. Scott Schebler led the match with a single and Jose Peraza immediately brought him home with a two-point homer in the center left. The only Milwaukee race was won by Jonathan Schoop in the second heat.
Wild card of the national league
The Brewers have a two-game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals for first place in the standings, while the Cardinals have a one and a half game lead over the Rockies for second place.
The Cardinals clung to a 2-1 lead over N.L. The Atlanta Braves lead the way to the eighth inning, but the St. Louis attack woke up to an 8-1 victory. Paul DeJong played three races for the Cardinals, while the only Atlanta race was made by Ronald Acuna Jr. in the third set.
It was good news for the Cardinals as their win, combined with the losses at Milwaukee and Colorado, brought them closer to first place on the wild card, while giving them a cushion for second place.
West American League
The Houston Astros lead Oakland Athletics in five games.
Josh James and four other Astros drivers combined to eliminate the Seattle Mariners in Houston's 7-0 win. James, on his second career start, launched five innings and one-third of innings, eliminating seven shots and two goals. The Houston offense had four runs in round three – Marwin Gonzalez counted two with a center-left circuit – then added an insurance race in the seventh inning and two more in the eighth.
The Athletics, meanwhile, led by a score of 4-1 in the sixth inning of their game against the Angels, but things collapsed quickly. Los Angeles had six points against a group of three referees. Oakland has never recovered in the eventual loss of 9-7.
Wild Card from the American League
The Yankees lead Athletics by two and a half games to get the best wild card without any other team in the first six games.
There was some tension in the ninth in a pair of defensive fouls, but the Yankees managed to beat the Red Sox 3-2, which combined with Oakland's loss to the Angels, allowed New York to work in his quest. for the advantage of the field in the wild game. Tuesday's game marked the return on the field by Aaron Judge, but all points of the Yankees were awarded by Neil Walker in the seventh inning. The blast, Walker's 10th, gave the Yankees 11 players to double their points in home runs in one season, equaling the league's major record.
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