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Alexei .373 career with bases loaded

I feel something good coming from the Tank.

Dunn not looking good here.

I'm still on board with Beckham swinging away even though it didn't work out.

He was out.

Q can't keep getting 2-0, 2-1 on every hitter.

How about a 5-4-3 triple play? OK, well that was close enough.

Props to de Aza for that, but it helps to bat in the lineup following a guy who is hardly ever on first base.

Wise has a .931 OPS in September and I have no problem with riding the hot hand, but DeAza has a .777 OPS in the last two seasons and I hope nobody starts thinking of Wise as a permanent replacement for DeAza.

Wise CF Youkilis 3B Dunn 1B Konerko DH Rios RF Pierzynski C Viciedo LF Ramirez SS Beckham 2B

Does she know you've been cheating on her with your left hand?

I hate the Patriots too much to ever bet money on them, but I did make $500 betting against them in the Super Bowl. Put $250 on the Giants -3½ at 2:1.

Since there is no game thread yet, here's today's lineup: Wise CF Youkilis 3B Dunn 1B Konerko DH Rios RF Pierzynski C Viciedo LF Ramirez SS Beckham 2B

Baseball Prospectus just updated their Playoff Odds Report. AL Central: Sox 68.0%, Detroit 32.0% AL East: Yankees 82.0%, Baltimore 17.0%, Tampa Bay 1.0% AL West: Texas 87.5%, Oakland 11.9%, Angels 0.6% Wild Card: Oakland 77.6%, Baltimore 42.8%, Angels 32.8%, Tampa Bay 16.1%, Yankees 13.5%, Texas 12.3%, Detroit 3.5%, Sox 1.4% Total playoff (Div+WC) percentage change in last 7 days: Baltimore +33.8% Oakland +22.3% Sox +10.0% Yankees +6.8% Detroit -6.5% Angles -26.1% Tampa Bay -40.3%

Imagine how many more unearned runs the Tigers would be allowing if they didn't have a pitching staff with the second most strikeouts in the AL.

The overall run differential is 36 runs better for the Sox than Detroit, so they are almost dead-even teams aside from the defense.

Not me. As soon as I saw that the game was being played Monday afternoon, I suddenly contracted a mysterious illness that rendered me unable to to go work on Monday.

AL Best Record/AL West: Texas Oakland -3 AL Central: SOX Detroit -2 AL East: NY Yankees Baltimore -1 Tampa Bay -5 AL Wild Card: Oakland +3 Baltimore LA Angels -2½ Tampa Bay -4 Detroit -4½ 9/17 Games: DET @ SOX 2:10 BOS @ TB 7:10 BAL @ SEA 10:10

It's a single and only one run counts.

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Walking the bases loaded.

Winning run at 3rd with one out!

AL Best Record/AL West: Texas Oakland -2 AL Central: SOX Detroit -1 AL East: NY Yankees Baltimore -1 Tampa Bay -4 AL Wild Card: Oakland +3 Baltimore LA Angels -2½ Tampa Bay -3 Detroit -3½ 9/16 Games: TB @ NYY 1:05 LAA @ KC 2:10 SOX @ MIN 2:10 DET @ CLE 3:05 SEA @ TEX 3:05 BAL @ OAK 4:05

Better make a deep playoff run to cover that $10M if you're going to do that.

Dunn clearly isn't 100%. He didn't strike out once today.