NL Wild Card standings

San Francisco is somehow leading the standings, despite the fact that no one on their team other than Barry Bonds and Jason Schmidt are having good years-and Schmidt's been struggling coming back from an injury. The Cubs are a half game back, Houston is one game back, Florida and San Diego are 2 games back, and Philadelphia is 5 back.

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/standings/playoffrace

This link has some details about how far each club is from first place, how many games they have remaining, and who they would play if the playoffs were to start today.

In the National League, St. Louis would play the Wild Card unless a team from their division (Chicago or Houston) won it. If that were to happen, they would play the division winner with the worst record, and that's Los Angeles right now.

If San Francisco somehow wins the wild card, then St. Louis would play them and Atlanta would host the Dodgers. If a Central team wins it, then St. Louis would host Los Angeles and Atlanta would host the wild card. I think that one of the central teams will win it; I can't see how San Francisco can, although they are leading.

My prediction is that Houston will win because they have been hot lately, and the Braves will host them with the Dodgers going to St. Louis for Game 1.