It's crunch time.
There's a lot left to play for in 2025, but with no more than 20 games left on any team's schedule, everyone's running out of time to position themselves for a last-minute surge, and every loss comes packaged with an extra sense of dread -- when all is said and done, is that the one that's going to haunt you?
Only one way to find out. Here are five matchups with Wild Card implications -- three between big-time rivals -- that you can catch this week.
Mets at Phillies: 4 games (Monday-Thursday)
Head-to-head: The Mets may be chasing, but they've had the Phillies' number all year -- they're 7-2 coming into their final head-to-head series, but the Phillies did win the first matchup at Citizens Bank Park, two games to one.
Storyline: The NL East seems pretty fixed at