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Wow, Ohtani is really struggling.

2000% of native americans

Hopefully the A's play well enough to not get eliminated before then.

Astros won the season series 5-2.

I don't think I'd start him vs a LHP in a playoff game, but he definitely needs to get some at bats against LHP until then if the Sox view him as a potential every day player.

So basically, Junk vs Junk at this point.

Here's what happens if there's a 3 way tie for the two wild card spots. Team A hosts Team B. The winner is the first wild card. This game would be Monday. The loser plays at Team C and the winner is the second wild card. This game would be Tuesday. The actual wild card game (which might be same two teams that just played each other Monday) would get pushed back to Wednesday. My best guess is they have the Sox and Astros go ahead and start on Thursday, otherwise there are no games Thursday.

Saved the big guns for today--when Keuchel is pitching.

Boston is 10-6 vs New York so Boston has won that tiebreaker Boston is 10-9 vs Toronto so Boston has also won that one Toronto is 10-6 vs New York so Toronto has won that one So New York is on the road against any team they're tied with. The real wild scenario is if they finish in a 3-way tie. There are two tiebreaker games just to determine who gets to play in the Wild Card game.

Yes, I did mean Boston and have fixed it.

That was a nice catch by Eloy last night but I'd really prefer he not do that again until the playoffs.

9/15: Magic number = 7 Minnesota has been eliminated. Magic number to eliminate Kansas City is 2, which could happen as early as today. Sox are now within 1 of Houston for the #2 seed. In the Wild Card race we now have New York, Toronto and Boston all tied for the 2 spots. Seattle 3 back, Oakland 3.5 back. Over in the National League, the Giants are in front of the Dodgers by 2.5, with both having clinched at least a WC spot. St. Louis has moved into the 2nd WC spot, with Cincinnati 0.5 back and San Diego 1 back.

Abreu's the 4th most dangerous hitter in this lineup right now but they keep walking him.

Peralta and Peralta had quite the pitcher's duel and now the bullpen have a scoreless game in the 9th for Milwaukee and Detroit.

I don't expect much from anybody 1st game back from the IL.

Cesar finally drives in a run!

Piece of cake.

Cleveland loses the 2nd game. Magic # is 8.

Yaz briefly forgets that he's a catcher.

Get some more runs and make this game 8th inning-proof.

That didn't look like a homer off the bat.

How often does a team bring in a new pitcher to pitch to Leury?

Nice to see Eloy hit one hard but when he's on, that pitch goes 450 feet.

That went far

Yankees up 5-0 on Baltimore in the 3rd inning. It's becoming increasingly clear that the Wild Card is going to be won by the team that gets to play Baltimore last.