On the penultimate Friday of the 2025 MLB regular season, all teams but two have nine games remaining (the Twins and Guardians have a doubleheader Saturday to make up a previous postponement).

Thus it’s now pretty straightforward to look at the Cubs and other National League contenders, because all the teams involved have nine games remaining.

While the Diamondbacks, Reds and Giants (and even, marginally, the Cardinals) still have a chance at the third wild-card spot currently inhabited by the Mets, none of those teams can catch the Cubs for the top wild-card spot they currently hold.

So for this article, I’m concerning myself only with the Cubs, Padres, Mets and Dodgers. Why the Dodgers? Well… you’ll see.

Here are the remaining schedules for those four teams. Home games in boldface.

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