There’s still plenty of time for scenarios to change. It’s quite possible the Yankees can jump the Rays. Also, you have that one game playoff for the wildcard. Anything can happen.
The second photo he was clearly safe. The first photo it’s hard to tell unless you zoom in on it but it looks like his foot is off the bag. If they were told to not challenge the plays than I don’t know what they are looking at. You got to take that risk especially if it’s a difference of one or two runs.
We had way too many injuries this year. Usually injuries kill a team’s chances of making the playoffs. There’s still a great chance that we will win the division and make the playoffs but probably a first round exit this year.