Chicago and Los Angeles both have two home-town division leaders.
The Chicago Cubs are in first place in the National League Central Division. They have a .613 record. The Milwaukee Brewers are in second place, 5.5 games behind the Cubs.
At the same time, on the South Side, the Chicago White Sox are tied with the Minnesota Twins for first place in the American League Central. The Sox have a .569 record. Detroit is in second place, 10.5 games behind the first place teams.
Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the Los Angeles Angels have the best record in baseball at .623, thirty games over .500. (The Cubs are second.) They are 15.5 games ahead of the second-place Texas Rangers in the American League West.
And the other LA team, the Dodgers, are tied with the Arizona Diamondbacks for first place in the National League West. At .516, the first place teams are 8 games ahead of the second-place Colorado Rockies.
The New York Mets are in first place in the National League East, but their AL counterparts aren’t keeping up. The Mets have a .548 record, two games ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies. They New York Yankees, though, are in third place, 9.5 games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays, with a .532 record.
And, finally, both of the Bay Area teams are low in the standings and seemingly out of contention. The San Francisco Giants are 11.5 games behind the Dodgers and Diamondbacks with a .423 record. And the Oakland Athletics are 20.5 games behind the Angels, playing .455 for the season.
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers
