Eliminated

[Elster88]

Atlanta's tragic number?

[Gwreck]

4.

[TransMonk]

Au revoir, Cardinaux.

[stevejrogers]

And for the 7th year in a row we will have a new MLB World Champion! And 11th different NL champ since the 95-96 Braves.

[stevejrogers]

Detroit and Seattle are staying alive in their respective divisions, Arizona can end the Dodgers NL West reign tonight.

The Red Sox with their win tonight clinched a playoff spot, which means Detroit pretty much needs to win every game and hope the Indians and Yankees lose every game. FWIW the Yankees number for both the Mariners and Tigers stands at 3.

And heading into the final week of the regular season, only the Tigers and Mariners are barely alive in the AL but 5 teams are still alive in the NL Wild Card (Phillies (1 game back right now), Rockies (3 games back), Braves (5 games back), Dodgers (6.5) and Brewers (6.5)

Also in the NL, along with the Phillies the Braves are still "breathing." Well, the number to continue the current streak of years without a division championship is now at 1. Same for the Dodgers in the NL West, but the Rockies at 4 and Padres at 8 are still left to deal with. The Brewers are the last team left battling in the Central.

[Benjamin Grimm]

SteveJRogers wrote: And 11th different NL champ since the 95-96 Braves.

Hope not.

[stevejrogers]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]And 11th different NL champ since the 95-96 Braves. Hope not.

Yance, that was meant that the NL will not have back-to-back champs again since the Braves won back-to-back in 1996. Not the 11th different franchise as the Cards and Marlins have won twice in that time frame, and we all hope the Mets will make it a threesome this year for that time frame.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Steve, your meaning was not abundantly clear. Like Yancy, I too was confused as to what your true meaning was. What you meant to convey and what you wrote were not the same.

[Valadius]

The Dodgers have been eliminated in the NL West. They have a tragic number of 2 for the wild card. The Mariners have a tragic number of 1, and the Tigers have a tragic number of 2. The Braves' tragic number for the NL East is 2, and 4 for the wild card.

[Valadius]

The Dodgers are out. The Mariners are out too, if their extra-innings game ends with the current score.

[TransMonk]

Seattle and the Dodgers are indeed out. The Tigers look for a miracle to keep from being the last AL team eliminated in the regular season.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And half the National League is still alive, at least mathematically.

If Baseball Prospectus' odds turn out to be accurate, the next four teams to be eliminated (prior to the post-season) will be, in order: Atlanta, Milwaukee, Colorado, Philadelphia.

[TransMonk]

And the Tigers are out, meaning the AL half of the bracket is set with the Angels, Indians, Red Sox and Yankees all into the postseason.

The NL is still up in the air with 8 teams alive and no spots clinched.

[nymr83]

you forgot one...

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

My thoughts exactly Nymr. They'll be cueing the Mets up and adding them to the list soon enough I suspect.

[TransMonk]

By allowing themselves to be eliminated, the Braves helped the Mets take one step closer to elimination hell.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Five of the eight teams that made the postseason last year are gone. Yankees are in (gag) and the Mets and Padres are still alive.

[Frayed Knot]

Brewers

[TransMonk]

It's amazing that Chicago is the first to clinch with the worst record of the playoff teams. The Brewers played harder than they have in years, but fell a bit short.

The Mets have to win to stay off this list tomorrow.

[TransMonk]

Disappointing.

[Elster88]

Ouch. He did it.

I welcome the pain. I listened to Mad Dog on the way home. I watched Baseball Tonight. I'm going to look at Transmonk's most recent post in this thread. And I'm going to go watch the last inning of the 2007 NLCS in a few minutes.

Does anyone have a Klingon painstick?

[Elster88]

Dammit we weren't even the last team to be eliminated. It hurts.