BTW Power Rankings - Week 21

The Pirates have been playing well for the month of August, climbing within 9 games of the division lead.  True the Central is abysmal, but there still is hope.  The Pirates have 6 games remaining against the division leading Cubs, 6 versus the Brewers and 7 versus the Cardinals.  The division, although not likely won by Pittsburgh, could be determined by what the Pirates do over the last month of the season. 

The top 3 teams in the division will square off against each other multiple times over the last month.  The Cubs have a 3 game series against Milwaukee starting Tuesday.  The Brewers have a 3 game set later in the month with St. Louis.  The Cards have 5 games left against the Cubs.  With all of the top 3 squaring off against each other, when they aren't playing the Pirates they will be beating themselves up.

With 19 games against the top 3, look for the Pirates to enjoy the spoiler role while possibly sneaking into contention rather quietly.  That is possible  only if the offense that has shown up the last 4 weeks continues throughout the month of September.

BTW:  Happy Birthday to my oldest son TJ who turned 5 today.

 

Rank	LW	Team	W	L
1	1	Boston	80	51
2	2	LA Angels	76	54
3	3	NY Mets	73	56
4	4	NY Yankees	72	58
5	5	Cleveland	72	57
6	6	Seattle	73	55
7	8	San Diego	70	59
8	7	Detroit	70	60
9	14	Colorado	67	63
10	9	Philadelphia	67	62
11	10	Chicago Cubs	66	63
12	12	Arizona	74	57
13	11	Atlanta	67	64
14	16	Minnesota	67	63
15	15	LA Dodgers	67	63
16	13	Toronto	65	65
17	17	Oakland	65	67
18	18	Milwaukee	65	65
19	24	San Francisco	59	72
20	26	Cincinnati	60	70
21	19	Baltimore	58	71
22	22	St. Louis	63	64
23	25	Texas	58	72
24	21	Kansas City	57	72
25	28	Pittsburgh	57	72
26	20	Florida	57	74
27	23	Houston	58	73
28	27	Washington	58	73
29	30	Tampa Bay	51	79
30	29	Chicago Sox	56	74

 

 

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