Baseball

MLB

United States

Season:: 2026

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. It is the oldest league of the four. Teams play in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), which operated as separate legal entities from 1901 and 1876 respectively. In 2000, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. The organization oversees minor league baseball leagues, which operate about 240 teams affiliated with the major-league clubs. With the International Baseball Federation, the league also manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseball's first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869. The first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era; players rarely hit home runs during this time. Baseball survived a game-throwing incident known as the Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series. Baseball rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II. Shortly after the war, baseball's color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums and artificial turf surfaces began to change the game in the 1970s and 1980s. Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, including at least one player from each team. Today, MLB is composed of thirty teams: Twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Teams play 162 games each season. Five teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions that dates to 1903. Baseball broadcasts are aired throughout North America and in several other countries throughout the world. Games are aired on television, radio, and the Internet. MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 74 million spectators in 2013.

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Standings

#	Team	P	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	New York Yankees	161	93	68	739	601	138	13
2	Boston Red Sox	162	87	75	689	611	78	6
3	Chicago White Sox	162	84	78	776	720	56	3
4	Cleveland Guardians	162	85	77	678	667	11	4
5	Houston Astros	162	81	81	734	766	-32	0
6	Texas Rangers	162	80	82	673	719	-46	-1
7	Baltimore Orioles	161	79	82	718	739	-21	-1
8	Toronto Blue Jays	162	79	83	648	694	-46	-2
9	Minnesota Twins	162	77	85	739	797	-58	-4
10	Detroit Tigers	162	76	86	723	652	71	-5
11	Seattle Mariners	162	76	86	664	722	-58	-5
12	Kansas City Royals	162	69	93	690	810	-120	-12
13	Athletics	162	64	98	699	937	-238	-17
14	Los Angeles Angels	162	62	100	655	752	-97	-19
15	Tampa Bay Rays	162	98	64	736	650	86	17

Standings

#	Team	P	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	San Diego Padres	162	91	71	722	681	41	10
2	Chicago Cubs	162	89	73	850	703	147	8
3	Philadelphia Phillies	162	88	74	713	698	15	7
4	Los Angeles Dodgers	162	100	62	801	600	201	19
5	Atlanta Braves	162	94	68	742	626	116	13
6	Arizona Diamondbacks	162	86	76	739	730	9	5
7	Pittsburgh Pirates	162	82	80	767	739	28	1
8	Miami Marlins	162	80	82	715	712	3	-1
9	St. Louis Cardinals	162	77	85	720	749	-29	-4
10	Washington Nationals	162	77	85	821	815	6	-4
11	Cincinnati Reds	162	75	87	666	826	-160	-6
12	New York Mets	162	74	88	699	731	-32	-7
13	San Francisco Giants	162	65	97	669	760	-91	-16
14	Colorado Rockies	162	58	104	752	944	-192	-23
15	Milwaukee Brewers	162	103	59	832	618	214	22