{"id":24831,"date":"2026-09-25T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24831"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:58:44","slug":"clinched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/clinched\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinched"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With their 9-1 victory over the Royals in Kansas City yesterday, the White Sox clinched a postseason berth, their first since 2021.\u00a0 They became just the fourth team to make the playoffs a year after losing 100+ games and the first to ever do so after two straight years of 100+ losses.\u00a0 They also became the first team in MLB history to notch a winning record following two 100+ loss seasons.\u00a0 With three games to go in the regular season, they remain one game behind the Guardians for the AL Central title and hold the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Mere minutes later, the Cubs followed suit, officially wrapping up their spot in the postseason with a 2-1 win over the Marlins at Wrigley Field.\u00a0 The Cubs currently sit one game behind the Padres for the top Wild Card seed in the NL and face a tough weekend in Boston (and maybe Tampa?) to wrap up the season.<\/p>\n

This is just the fourth time both Chicago teams have made the postseason in the same year and the first, with fans allowed in the stands, since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With their 9-1 victory over the Royals in Kansas City yesterday, the White Sox clinched a postseason berth, their first since 2021.\u00a0 They became just the fourth team to make the playoffs a year after losing 100+ games and the first to ever do so after two straight years of 100+ losses.\u00a0 They also became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,9687,114,231,126,49,595],"class_list":["post-24831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-guardians","tag-marlins","tag-padres","tag-royals","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24833,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions\/24833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}