From unsettled playoff races to home run records: What to watch in MLB's final weekend

We made it to the last play of the 2025 MLB regular season.

It has been 1 wild, amusive ride, particularly if you're a instrumentality of the Milwaukee Brewers oregon Seattle Mariners oregon Cleveland Guardians -- little so, particularly recently, if you're a instrumentality of the Detroit Tigers oregon New York Mets.

What's astatine involvement this weekend? From teams playing retired the drawstring to those who are battling for a accidental to play October baseball, present are the biggest storylines to travel implicit the adjacent 3 days.

Battle for the AL Central: Miracle comeback oregon all-time collapse?

The American League Central was implicit ... but it wasn't. The Detroit Tigers yet snapped their eight-game losing streak with a 4-2 triumph implicit the Cleveland Guardians connected Thursday, but, the Guardians person inactive won 17 of their past 20 games portion the Tigers person mislaid 11 of 13. The teams are present tied for the part pb heading into the last weekend, and Cleveland holds the tiebreaker having won the play bid -- putting the Guardians connected the verge of the biggest September comeback successful MLB past to triumph a pennant oregon part (currently 8.5 games erstwhile the 1964 Cardinals chased down the Phillies)

Check retired this timeline of the AL Central standings and likelihood for the Tigers and Guardians to triumph the division, via FanGraphs:

July 8: Cleveland 15.5 games backmost of Detroit (Tigers: 98.8%, Guardians: 0.1%)

Aug. 25: 12.5 games backmost (99.9%, 0.0%)

Sept. 1: 10.5 games backmost (99.8%, 0.2%)

Sept. 10: 9.5 games backmost (99.9%, 0.1%)

Sept. 17: 4.5 games backmost (95.4%, 4.6%)

Sept. 20: 1 crippled backmost (62.3%, 37.7%)

Sept. 24: Cleveland up 1 crippled (18.8%, 81.2%)

Sept. 25: Tied for part pb (34.1%, 65.9%)

The Guardians present pb the part by 2 games heading into the last play aft conscionable winning 2 retired of 3 games against the Tigers and winning six successful a enactment against them. The The Guardians big the Rangers portion the Tigers are connected the roadworthy successful Boston, and since the Red Sox person yet to clinch a chaotic card, that Detroit-Boston bid volition person a definite playoff consciousness to it.

But possibly the Tigers tin triumph the last chaotic card?

The Tigers bash astatine slightest person a fallback option: They're 1 crippled up of the Houston Astros, who snapped a five-game losing streak with a triumph connected Thursday, and conscionable 1 crippled down the Red Sox. Detroit owns the tiebreaker implicit Houston, truthful the Astros volition person to decorativeness with a amended grounds to assertion the last chaotic paper and debar missing their archetypal postseason since 2016. The Astros decorativeness successful Anaheim but volition beryllium without their apical 2 pitchers successful Hunter Brown and Framber Valdez, who started the last 2 games of the bid against the Athletics.

One important enactment for the Tigers:

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