The Diamondbacks won today. They finish the regular season 89-73.
The Braves lost today. Their record is currently 88-72.
The Mets won today. Their record is currently 88-72.
Braves and Mets play two tomorrow. If they split and both finish 89-73, they will both go to the playoffs and Arizona will stay home. If one team sweeps, that team will go to the playoffs, and the other team will stay home, while AZ is in the playoffs.
Whoever wins the first game is assured of a wild-card spot. It will be interesting to see what happens in the second game, after one team has clinched a spot.
The final Houston-Cleveland game was canceled due to the rain, so only 161 regular season games for them.
Both teams are already won their divisions and were locked into their playoff seeds, so the game has absolutely no playoff implications. Houston starts the WC series against Detroit Tuesday at home and Cleveland faces the winner of that series Saturday.
To be fair, Henderson’s 140 was a little less balanced than Ohtani’s (or even Acuna’s) totals: 130 steals, 10 HRs. But, hell, he would still have well outpaced Acuna even without a single homer.
Bill James came up with an informal stat called Power-Speed number for balancing both stats against each other-presumably Ohtani has the all-time seasonal record now:
The highest single-season power–speed number was recorded in 2024 by Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, with 54 home runs and 59 stolen bases for a power-speed number of 56.39. It was previously held by Ronald Acuña Jr. who hit 41 home runs and stole 73 bases in 2023 to record a power–speed number of 52.51.
