One of many clichés in Major League Baseball is that you aren’t supposed to even look at the standings until Memorial Day in the United States, which was Monday. That’s the first “official” checkpoint of each season.

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Good news for Philadelphia Phillies fans: Your team has a good chance of playing postseason baseball for the first time since 2011, which was the end of that excellent club’s five-year playoff run that included one World Series title. That’s because the Phillies lead the NL East and around 60 percent of teams that lead their division on Memorial Day have made the postseason since MLB added the first wild-card spot in each league in 1995. Of course, there are now two wild-card spots.

Being in the same tough NL Central Division with the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers, a wild-card spot might be the only path to the playoffs for the St. Louis Cardinals. They open a three-game series in Philadelphia on Tuesday night and then these clubs are done playing this regular season. The Phillies opened as -130 betting favorites for Tuesday’s game.