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[You Play to Win the Game]

Bichette continues his tear. Unreal.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Rays beat the Jays 4-2 in the first game of today's doubleheader.  Bichette was up in the bottom of the 9th with two on and two out, but grounded out on the 11th pitch to end the game.

[Mike in STL]

Right back to where we were Monday morning. 

 

O's have no business losing to the Nats. Win 2 and the weekend should mean something. They will be anywhere from 3 to 6 games back of TOR on Friday if they win both. 

 

Please manage these two games like the season is on the line. Thursday is a day off.

[Mackus]

Yep, manage the hell out of these games. Should be same lineup tomorrow unless it's a lefty. Even then...just dump Hays for McKenna.

[85Knight]

This is when I thought we would start to make up some serious ground on Toronto. Problem is I thought we'd be like 2 games closer. Still within reach but there's no more room for error now.

[BSLLukeRollfinke]

Pretty incredible how defeated it feels like the team and fanbase are right now. Maybe because football is starting and the Os are in a rut but playoffs are still very achievable if we can get hot and win the majority of our remaining games with Toronto.

[85Knight]

Pretty incredible how defeated it feels like the team and fanbase are right now. Maybe because football is starting and the Os are in a rut but playoffs are still very achievable if we can get hot and win the majority of our remaining games with Toronto.

Those 10 home games were very disheartening and took a lot of wind out of the sails. Had we gone just 6-4 with another win over the Blue Jays and Red Sox the mood would be totally different. Definitely no room for error now and we need some help.

[85Knight]

We basically have to win the last 6 series we have left after tonight's game to finish with around 90 wins. The good news is we just won our last 6 series in a row before we lost that stinker to Toronto. Recent history says it can be done so let's give it our best shot.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Might be time to focus on Tampa. I know we don’t play them but their schedule is rough.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Mathematically speaking, the odds have to be significantly, if not exponentially higher of the O’s making the playoffs with the Rays as the 5 seed rather than the Jays. Due to the remaining head to head opportunities.

But yeah this is getting weird. Jays look like the team we thought they’d be entering the season, finally, and the Rays are in a bit of a slump and still dealing with significant injuries.

[You Play to Win the Game]

I believe no Manoah or Gausman in the series this weekend.

Edit: Manoah probably starts Sunday. We’ll miss Stripling and Gausman.

[BSLSteveBirrer]

I guess the good news is that the O's now have two teams within reach. Problem I see is that they really gotta take 2 out of 3 this weekend. Doable for sure but right now Toronto just looks really good and we are going to be playing them at the wrong time. Maybe play them even the rest of the way and hope they drub Tampa.

 

We have 20 games left. If we play even just .500 ball we would finish with 85 wins. Nobody predicted anything close to that 6 months ago.

[You Play to Win the Game]

I guess the good news is that the O's now have two teams within reach. Problem I see is that they really gotta take 2 out of 3 this weekend. Doable for sure but right now Toronto just looks really good and we are going to be playing them at the wrong time. Maybe play them even the rest of the way and hope they drub Tampa.

Mackus reminded us as well in the game thread that due to TB’s tiebreaker advantage, basically add a game to their lead on us. Between that, and the remaining H2H’s, unfortunately Toronto has still gotta be the target, realistically speaking. But as Pedro pointed out, Tampa has a tough schedule so we’ll see. Never know. Just keep fighting.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Also 7 wins away from the unthinkable, in and of itself. So that’s the first target that I’ll truly celebrate this year.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Two day games vs Toronto, and the O"s haven't won a day game since August 3. They"re due!

[85Knight]

Honestly we're like 2 games short right now of having a chance. I don't know how we make that up but I feel like that's how short we are this season.

[glenn__davis]

Really wish Hyde had managed that final game in Tampa with a bit more urgency. Feel like everyone knew how important that game was but him. Win that and we're just 2 games back and we would hold the tiebreaker.

[JoyinMudville]

We're playing Toronto the last three games of the season.

 

Somewhere earlier in the week I saw that the O's elimination number was 18. Now I can't find that.

[Mackus]

We're playing Toronto the last three games of the season.

 

Somewhere earlier in the week I saw that the O's elimination number was 18. Now I can't find that.

 

17 now.  Really 16 if you consider that TB has the tiebreaker over them (Sea also has tiebreaker)

 

http://www.playoffst...gicnumbers.html

 

The current #6 seed has 79 wins already.  O's are 75-67, so if they go 3-17 over their final 20 games they'd finish at 78-84 and be behind the #6 seed even if they don't win any more games.  The current #6 seed is actually TB, so even only lose 16 to get to 79-wins and tie the Rays, they'd be eliminated by the tiebreaker

[Mackus]

McClanahan vs Gausman today in Toronto.  Go Rays!