How many wins to get in?

Here are the remaining games for the three teams:

 

Phillies: at Atlanta, at Florida, at Florida, at Florida, vs. Atlanta, vs. Atlanta, vs. Atlanta, OFF, vs. Washington, vs. Washington, vs. Washington.

Mets: at Washington, at Atlanta, at Atlanta, at Atlanta, vs. Cubs, vs. Cubs, vs. Cubs, vs. Cubs, vs. Florida, vs. Florida, vs. Florida

Brewers: at Cubs, at Cubs, at Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, OFF, vs. Pittsburgh, vs. Pittsburgh, vs. Pittsburgh, vs. Cubs, vs. Cubs, vs. Cubs

 

The Philly baseball beat writer thinks the Phillies have to go 7-3 over the last 10 games to definitely get in the playoffs. He even thinks 6-4 might do it since he doesn’t think BOTH the Mets and Brewers will go 6-4 since each has to play the Cubs (4 games for the Mets, 3 for the Brewers).

 

Interestingly, the Mets don’t have any more off days the rest of the way.

 

We played this game a couple of years ago with the Phils in the last week of the season. They crapped the bed against the lowly Nationals (remember the 2 am rain delayed game in Washington?), which really didn’t matter since the Dodgers essentially ran the table and went something like 9-1.

 

6-4 seems about right. That would make each teams’ magic 18, right? Any combination of Phillies wins and Mets/Brewers losses to get to 18 (and vice versa for Shuff).

 

Should be interesting. Too bad TBS stopped showing Braves-Phillies games.