the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres came out of the MLB All-Star break red hot to not only push themselves at top the national league Wild Card race but challenged the Los Angeles Dodgers at top the NL West standings over 25 games to begin the second half of the schedule they held the League's two best records during that span and found themselves deadlocked by overall record at 69 to 53 to own the top two wild card slots Arizona notably went 20 to5 through its first eight series of the post All-Star break schedule leading ml be in batting average and slugging and that put them firmly in reach of the division rival Dodgers who have ended 10 of the last 11 Seasons as NL West champions here's a look at both the divisional and NL Wild Card races as the Dbacks and Padre's chase the Dodgers