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[Chris B]

Can’t get much better than that

[You Play to Win the Game]

Let’s goooo!!!! Back in 1st. And the Mets have delivered the knockout blow to the Red Sox.

[CantonJester]

The Rangers had a 10-2 lead entering the 9th, but after a Trent Grisham grand slam off of some guy with an ERA north of the moon, some other guy came on to give up more base runners. Kirby Yates was called on to face Giancarlo Stanton with runners on 2nd and 3rd (score 10-6), and he got Stanton to fly out to LF. Or more specifically, line out on a 104 mph line drive that Wyatt Langford leapt to catch at the wall to prevent it from going into the seats.

 

TL;DR, O’s still in first place. 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Not really sure who to root for in the KC-Detroit series, but Detroit won game 1.  I guess we should be rooting for Cleveland over Minnesota.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Not really sure who to root for in the KC-Detroit series, but Detroit won game 1.  I guess we should be rooting for Cleveland over Minnesota.

Def root for Cle cause I would prefer they get the 1 seed

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Def root for Cle cause I would prefer they get the 1 seed

I guess its kind of sad Im already conceding the division but its hard to see it right now

[makoman]

I guess its kind of sad Im already conceding the division but its hard to see it right now

Sweep the Yanks and you just have to be even the other 9 games. If you don't it's really an uphill battle the way things are right now. Maybe they have a lucky series next week. I'm not saying I think it'll happen, just that there's a path.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Assuming we don’t win the division you’d prefer

Cle
NYY
Hou
Bal
Min
KC

[BSLSteveBirrer]

Assuming we don’t win the division you’d prefer

Cle
NYY
Hou
Bal
Min
KC

Not sure it matters. If the bats come alive (don't laugh this is just a hypothetical...lol) they beat any of these guys. If the bats stay asleep they lose to all of them.

[makoman]

Assuming we don’t win the division you’d prefer

Cle
NYY
Hou
Bal
Min
KC

Agree, Houston is the scariest team, NY second, so avoid both till the ALCS and get Cle in the ALDS. Also avoid KC who I hate.

[BSLRoseKatz]

Yeah I've accepted they're not the WS favorites but I'm really not trying to get eliminated by the Royals again lol

[BSLRoseKatz]

Also the Yankees are out west this week so you can torture yourself with some scoreboard watching doubleheaders lol

[jamesdean]

Not sure it matters. If the bats come alive (don't laugh this is just a hypothetical...lol) they beat any of these guys. If the bats stay asleep they lose to all of them.

At this point, that seems to be the more probable outcome.  Until they prove otherwise, I'm just assuming any of those teams would beat them in a series. 

[You Play to Win the Game]

Cleveland walked it off on Minnesota today. That moves the Tigers and Twins into a tie for the final WC spot (not sure who has the tiebreaker there.

 

Orioles have a 5 game lead on both of them.

 

Yankees are losing to Seattle 3-2 in the bottom of the 5th currently.

 

Royals (3 GB of Baltimore) and Tigers are both idle today.

 

Detroit comes to Baltimore this weekend. Minnesota is in Fenway. KC hosts SF.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Cleveland walked it off on Minnesota today.

Just posted this in another thread

Det and Minn are tied. We are up 5 games on both of them and up 3 on KC. We also have the tiebreaker on KC so essentially 4 games.

[BSLRoseKatz]

KC schedule: vs SF, at WAS, at ATL

DET: at BAL, vs TB, vs CWS (hell of a break to get them there)

MIN: at BOS, vs MIA, vs BAL

[You Play to Win the Game]

Just posted this in another thread

Det and Minn are tied. We are up 5 games on both of them and up 3 on KC. We also have the tiebreaker on KC so essentially 4 games.

Good tidbit about the KC tiebreaker. Screw them.

 

We could/should come seriously close to clinching this weekend with a couple wins. 

 

We face:

Keider Montero - 6-6 with a 4.60 ERA, 4.28 xFIP

Reese Olson - 4-8 with a 3.50 ERA, 3.71 xFIP

Casey Mize - 2-6 with a 4.36 ERA, 4.05 xFIP

 

Burnes, Povich, Suarez going for the O's. 

[Mackus]

Just posted this in another thread

Det and Minn are tied. We are up 5 games on both of them and up 3 on KC. We also have the tiebreaker on KC so essentially 4 games.

 

We're also up 3-0 on Minnesota this year in head-to-head, so barring a final series sweep we'll win that tiebreak.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Essentially we are up 6 with 9 to play on Minn. We swept them at home so even if they were to sweep us it would go to intradivision record and we have them there.

[Mackus]

1 win sure helps things look better and feel less risky.  Burnes on the mound tonight, too.  

 

To clinch a WC we need to eliminate 2 of these 4 teams left (Boston was eliminated from catching us yesterday), the magic numbers to eliminate each are:

 

Seattle - 2

Minnesota - 4

Detroit - 5

Kansas City - 6

 

We've got the tiebreak over Seattle, Minnesota (thanks to others who pointed out the 2nd level) and KC.  Detroit is still TBD so number reflects needing to finish ahead of them, not just tied.  Three-way tiebreaks are more complicated, but O's are in good shape having a strong head-to-head against the contenders but could lose that advantage if they drop 2 or 3 to Detroit this weekend.