lordstanley

And this site, while unofficial, does seem to be leaning your way because it has KC still at 21. Although curiously, it does say "Tiebreakers will begin to be calculated when there are 32 games remaining in the MLB season.". https://playoffmagic.com/mlb/league/ Then again, this one has it at 20: https://www.playoffstatus.com/mlb/americanwinmagicnumbers.html Soon MLB.com or ESPN will start adding elimination numbers to its standings and we will know for sure.

The schedule worries me more than anything else. 10-7, win the division on a tiebreaker. #3rd seed, win the wildcard week playoff game. After that I have no idea, but if they get that far they need not fear anyone, home or away.

The Royals have 31 games to play and automatically lose the tiebreaker to the Tigers. The Royals can max out at 98 wins (67+31). 20 Tigers wins (78+20) will therefore eliminate the Royals no matter what. This is no change from what the Tigers needed before today's games to eliminate the Royals. But the magic number still went down because ... ..the Guardians have 33 games to play and do not necessarily lose the tiebreaker to the Tigers (6 games left to play against each other). The Guardians can max out at 97 wins (64 + 33). Since the Guardians can still win the tiebreaker over the Tigers, the Tigers need 20 more wins (78 + 20) to eliminate the Guardians no matter what. Before the Guardians lost today, the Guardians could have maxed out at 98 wins, so the Tigers would have needed 21 more wins to eliminate the Guardians no matter what. Therefore, the magic number has gone down from 21 last night to 20 now.

Guardians lose. I don't want to intrude on MCS so ...

Loss. Still was a 5-1 homestand. Things are good.

Jays and Astros have both lost, so today is an acceptable day even if the Tigers lose.

Tigers lead!

Tie game!

Wenceel! One-run game with 5 innings of baseball still to play.

Flaherty has pitched 4 innings. 3 of them were perfect 1-2-3 innings, lol

7 straight hits. Better call a timeout.

This went south quickly. Jack retires the first 8 hitters of the game, then gives up 5 straight hits.

After scoring a grand total of 2 runs in 3 games against the Tigers, the Astros have scored 26 runs (7, 10, 9) in 2 games & 7 innings since.

Guardians lose.

Daniella Provenzano is her name now. Looks like she will keep using Bruce professionally.

Run differential now an even +100. 18-7 (.720) in past 25 games. 12-3 since the series loss at home to Minnesota. 9-1 in past 10. 25 games above .500 for the 2nd time this year, so 19-19 since then includes the 1-12 stretch. Magic number 22. Will go down to 21 when the Cleveland loss (9-0 in 6th) goes final.

Top of the order. It would behoove Holton to not let Bobby Witt Jr come up with a man on base.

ANOTHER double play! Perfect spot for it. 3-2 Tigers at the 7th inning stretch.

Dan Dickerson understandably was extremely animated on that inning-ending call. Dingler Long At Bat.mp3

What a terrible way to end that epic at-bat. The pitch before was just a few feet foul of a Dave Bergman moment.

Derek Hill had a chance to make a contribution for the Tigers just now. But with a man on 3rd in the 10th inning of a tie game against the Jays, he struck out. Derek disappoints.

I've been thinking of Shakira's hips the entire game.

Tork bomb!

Yet another double play by the Tigers. 0-0 after the top of the 3rd.

My wife is from Taiwan. Did I ever post about the time I questioned the ages of some of the Taipei players? She let me live to tell about it but ...