The NL West is even closer than it looks right now.
The Diamondbacks have a 3.5 game lead on the Rox, but the Rockies have 3 games in hand on them. In the loss column, the Rockies are 2 games behind both AZ and SD and only 1 back of LA.
And the silver lining to that difficult schedule is that the reason it's so difficult is that they will be playing the teams ahead of them in the NL West quite a bit. An optimist might see that as the ability to control your own destiny...
(That phrase has always bothered me, actually. If it's destiny, then you can't control it whether you win or lose. Same with controlling your own fate. Anyway...)
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