SHAWN WINDSOR: Tigers' win after a pair of injury losses a true indication of team's character The Royals and Twins jostled for the top spot throughout September K.C.’s 8-6 record wasn’t especially impressive, but the baby Twins - their position players were nearly 1½ years younger than the next youngest team - collapsed down the stretch, with six losses to end the year. 25 to tied for the division just 11 days later, while only going from two games under.
The Royals went from five games back of the Minnesota Twins on Aug. The buzz: While the Tigers had the AL East virtually wrapped up with their 35-5 start, the West was chaotic well into September. The champ: Kansas City Royals, 84-78 (.519). But the A’s came back at home with two straight wins, capped by a pair of two-run homers by Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson in the third inning of Game 7.
The Mets went the distance in the World Series, too, grabbing a 3-1 lead over the defending champion Oakland Athletics. The playoffs: So, of course, the Mets stunned the West-champion Cincinnati Reds - who went 99-63 in the regular season - in five games, taking Games 2, 3 and 5 by a combined 21-4 score (with 2-1 losses in the other two games). 16 to winning the division by 1½ games over the Cardinals, who had the best expected record of the group, at 86-76, but finished just 81-81. 500 and 3½ games back of the Pittsburgh Pirates (and two back of fifth-year squad Montreal) on Sept. The Amazins went from fourth place, four games under.
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The universe seemed stacked against them early on, though, with seven games in April and May rescheduled due to weather, plus two more rainouts in September that pushed their finale to Oct.
The buzz: After three straight seasons with 83 wins apiece and no playoff berths, Yogi Berra’s squad got to 82 - thanks to nine wins in their final 11 - and took the division. The chump: Philadelphia Phillies, 71-91 (.438). OUCH! Doctors explain when Eduardo Rodriguez, Riley Greene could return from injuries 1973 NL East: 470-500 (.485) Here’s how the 2023 AL Central stacks up with some of baseball’s worst divisions over the past 54 seasons: 487 win percentage, despite featuring the epically bad 12-49 Oakland Athletics.) 593 win percentage, and the AL West was 145-153, a. (For comparison’s sake, the AL East’s combined record entering Monday was 178-122, for a. 443, though the Tigers - of all teams - are actually outplaying their expected record of 22-35 by four games. That’s not that far off its expected win percentage (calculated from runs scored and allowed) or. In all, the division features a combined 121-160 record - or a combined. (They were swept in the best-of-five series.)
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MLB has only had one team reach the postseason with a losing record, by the way: The 1981 Royals, who were 50-53 overall during the strike-shortened season but went 30-23 following the strike to earn a AL West division series berth against the first-half-winning A’s.
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