Remaining schedule of the contenders. They play at the Yankees at the end of next week and a 4-game set at the Astros in September. Otherwise, they are playing the bottom half of baseball the rest of the way. They are the front runner to host the WC at this point.

If they had any semblance of a respectable bullpen for the first half of the season, they would have been keeping pace with the Astros and Yankees.