Red Sox Standings Watch: Merry month of May has team on the rise

Wild Card Standings

As the Red Sox continue their pursuit of catching the Yankees at the top of their division, they can take solace in knowing that if the season ended today they would still be in the playoffs.

Boston holds the top Wild Card spot, which would give them home-field advantage in a potential one-game playoff. Not that they should get too comfortable though. They have only a 1.5 game edge over the Minnesota Twins, who are percentage points ahead of Baltimore and Cleveland for the second spot.

Then you have the Rays lurking just outside of that group and the Toronto Blue Jays are picking up steam with eight wins in their last ten games.

Texas and Detroit are below .500 teams yet still remain within three games of a playoff spot, putting them squarely in the hunt. Los Angeles is likely to plummet with Mike Trout on the disabled list and enough damage may be done to their record by the time he returns that even his super hero talents won’t save them.

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It’s still early enough in the season that some pretenders may still be masquerading as contenders. A healthy Red Sox team is certainly capable of being a contender and they are finally starting to show it.