Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yesterday was a very good one for Happy Outcomes, with four: Mets win, Braves, Padres, Dodgers lose. The only Unhappy Outcome was a win by the Cardinals. The Padres now drop off our chart, as their Magic Number has been reached and they can no longer finish with a better record than the Mets. This ensures that if the Mets end up in the Wild Card round, they will have home-field advantage and will play the lowest-ranked opponent. I get that the Mets have clinched the top wild card, but doesn't that make them, at best, the 4 seed? Isn't the NL Central winner automatically the 3 seed by virtue of winning their division and wouldn't they get to play the 6 seed, last in wild card?