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Alec Mills (whoever that is) taking no-hitter to the 9th.

Best AL record with two weeks left may happen today. Nice.

21-3 against those teams is great, but then again, 9-13 vs everyone else...and those shit teams won’t be there Sep 29. So beat the Twins and Indians coming up. Win 38 or 39 regular season games, get the 1 or 2 seed, and then another couple.

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Good ole number 53. McRae to Schaumburg. Rodon 45-day IL.

Magic numbers to stay ahead of: Sea 7 (Six if four are division games) doubleheader vs Oak on Monday Bal 7 (Six if three are division games)Yankees tomorrow, then interleague series Det 6

Regardless, here's what's up: TB 30-16 Oak 29-16 (23-10 div rec) Sox 29-16 (21-10 div rec) MIn 29-18 Tor 25-20 Hou 23-23 Cle 26-20 NY 25-21

They may be 23-23. Just tied it in the 9th off Jansen.

11 MLB debuts. That’s a something.

Magic Number: 7

Maybe Detwiler can go 2-3, and go from there.

Have they said who’s starting tomorrow?

They do. It’s a money grab for the postseason, and it is what it is (sorry to use that phrase). It would have been much more exciting to have the Central winner really care about winning the division, while the other two face each other to get in, but it’s only one year of this shit hopefully.

O’s lose 8 (Tigers and Orioles)

Matt Chapman out for season. Potentially good for the Sox, but bad for baseball. A’s have only used 34 players this season.

Evan Marshall was just on with Bruce Levine. He ended the interview by asking Bruce what it’s like to dip his toe in politics. Spiegel laughed. Bruce sounded pissed. It was good.

It’s 9 over the Orioles, but 8 if five of the eight are division games. Sox are playing the Tigers; Orioles are playing the Yankees. That’’s a potential of 4 the next couple days. If the Sox sweep the Tigers and beat the Twins three of four, good chance they clinch the 8-seed before flying to Cincinnati.

Would want the hottest pitcher the last couple starts, but right now Dunning easily.

NY at Oak; Tor at Min Cle at TB; Hou at Sox Sox magic number is 8 over Orioles and Tigers. (Technically it’s 9 over Baltimore, but they’ll never catch the Sox division record)

They’ll get the game in tonight, uninterrupted.

Definitely would love to see Giolito go 7-8, and Lopez go 6 on Saturday and win both. If they do that, McRae and Flores take Sunday’s game as long as possible.

Pretty sure I heard AL on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; NL on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Tried to find confirmation but there’s nothing out there that’s definite. I’m sure the rough schedule/bubble information will be finalized early next week.

17 games in 17 days never happens in a regular 162-game season? Would you like me to provide about 500 examples? Of course it happens. The rule used to be no longer than 20 days in a row, and that would happen often. Now with the extra four days off, it’s less common.

NY at Oak; Tor at Min Cle at TB; Hou at Sox A’s move to 1, Indians fall to 7

I’ll go Indians 2-1, so their season series ends 5-5. Not sure that does anything good for the Sox, but that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.