With a record of 64 wins and 30 losses, the New York Yankees remain at the top of the Major League standings. With the first half of the schedule in the history books, the ninth New Yorker can boast of having built a solid foundation to reach the postseason.
At least that’s what the projections believe, which after hundreds of simulations place the Bronx Bombers with a 99 percent chance of entering the playoffs and doing so as division champions (98%) of the American League East.
However, within all the good that there is in the numbers achieved so far by the Yankees, something worrying is hidden. 12.5 percent of the losses that New York has suffered to date were caused by the Houston Astros. The figure may look small, but it is a group with which it does not share a division. Seen in another way, the New Yorkers have only managed against the Astros, 3.13 percent of his wins this year.
The ninth space took the annual rivalry against the Yankees with a 5-2 mark. In the regular calendar there are no games remaining and the Yankees they will have to live the rest of the year knowing that they could only hit 1.52, their worst average against any opponent in a season.
Conquering the AL East pennant race won’t be a problem for New York, their nightmare will start in the postseason when they have to face the Astros in a potential Series of the American League Championship.
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If the season ended today, the Yankees would have home-field advantage throughout the MLB postseason brackethowever the bad news for them and the good news for the Astros is that there is still ground ahead.
Because Houston is in the weak West division, the rest of their schedule is more accessible than the Yankees’. Except for the Mariners (.548), none of their division rivals play ball above .500.
In the AL East, no organization has a losing record to date.
weekend clashes
The Yankees face starting this Friday, a three-game series against the Orioles, whom they have beaten nine times by four losses, while Houston faces Seattle, in a rivalry tied at six wins apiece.
New York is at 2.5 Houston games Will they keep their distance this weekend?
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