The AL is on pace to finish with a winning record over the NL for 14th consecutive year

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Every year, there are 300 interleague contests. At this writing, there have been 103 this season, and the AL has won 61 of those. That’s good for a .592 winning percentage — essentially the Yankees’ winning percentage — and here’s how things have gone since the concept was put into action roughly a couple decades ago:

The same fact remains the same fact. The last time the NL won the majority of the interleague games was in 2003. This would stand as the 14th consecutive year of AL supremacy, and although that winning percentage is obviously far from locked in, it would be the second-highest winning percentage we’ve observed. Back in 2006, the AL won 61% of the time. In 2008, the AL won 59% of the time. That’s happened again, as the AL has refused to allow the gap to shrink to nothing.

The last time the NL had the higher OPS in interleague play was in 2002. That particular advantage was all of two points, or, if you prefer, two-thousandths of one point. Last year, the NL closed to within 12 points, but the gap has since widened to 52. If finalized, that would stand as the AL’s fifth-largest advantage in the 21 seasons, although as recently as 2015, it was a pinch higher. The point simply being: The AL is still better. If you believe, that is, the results of the games played between teams in each league.

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