Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks arrived at Chase Field on Monday afternoon for a light workout and heavy anxiety. After a full afternoon of scoreboard watching, their fears were confirmed. There will be no postseason for the defending National League champions. The Braves and Mets split their doubleheader on Monday in Atlanta, meaning both those teams will head to playoffs while the Diamondbacks were the odd team out. All three finished the regular season with an 89-73 record, but the Mets and Braves both owned tiebreakers over the Diamondbacks because they won the season series. In the end, there was nothing to do but watch the season slip away on TV. Diamondbacks ace Zac Gallen was playing catch on the field as the final out was recorded before trudging off the field and to the clubhouse. “I was planning on playing tomorrow,” Gallen said. The Mets-Braves doubleheader on Monday was scheduled one day following the expected end of the regular season after Hurricane Helene washed out two of their games in Atlanta last week. It wasn’t an ideal situation for anyone involved. “It’s unfortunate, but you can’t control the weather,” Gallen said. “Who knew a hurricane was going to happen? That’s moreso the bigger picture — people are losing their lives and homes. For me to get mad about a natural disaster would be a little tone deaf. “The more disappointing part is that we — to a certain extent — controlled our own destiny and we didn’t come through. Didn’t execute.”

Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani topped Major League Baseball jersey sales for the second straight season while becoming the first player to reach 50 homers and 50 stolen bases in the same year. The Dodgers star was followed by the Phillies’ Bryce Harper, the Yankees’ Aaron Judge and the Dodgers’ Mookie Betts, said Major League Baseball and the players’ association subsidiary MLB Players Inc., on Monday.

Cardinals: Chaim Bloom will replace longtime Cardinals President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak after the 2025 season, the team’s CEO said Monday. Bill DeWitt Jr. said Bloom will oversee a reset of the club’s player development system next season and then will take over for Mozeliak, who is the second-longest-tenured head of a big league team’s baseball operations behind the Yankees’ Brian Cashman.

Padres, Royals: Luis Arraez held off Shohei Ohtani’s bid to win the National League Triple Crown and became the first player since the 1800s to earn batting titles with three teams. Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. won his first American League batting championship, finishing with a major league-best .332 average. Arraez went 1 for 3 on Sunday and posted a .314 average for the Padres, the lowest for an NL batting champion since Tony Gwynn’s record-low .313 in 1988. After striking out and flying out in his first two at-bats, Arraez doubled in the sixth inning to reach 200 hits for the second straight season. He was pulled for a defensive replacement in the bottom half. Witt, who took his first day off all season Saturday, went 1 for 4 in the Royals’ finale to finish at .332. The Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero was second at .323 and the Yankees’ Aaron Judge third at .322.