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Guardians win, Astros win and the Jays have taken the lead in Colorado. Bad night all around.

Yanks demote Jake Bird to AAA.

Ahh, I hadn't realized Bergman died. 10 years ago, I must have been away from my PC that day. Now I'm bummed, his long at-bat against the Jays was one of '84s most memorable moments.

There are so many things wrong with this 1993 Seattle Mariners baseball card.

Take my view with a grain of salt, as I live thousands of miles away and in a different country, but I think Bob Wojnoski is the one remaining columnist/reporter in the tradition of Green and Falls.

Oh dear, Yankees' pen blow another game. Not Bednar this time. But after the Rangers score 1 in the 9th to tie it, deadline acquisition Jake Bird serves up a 3-run home run walkoff in the 10th to lose it. After tonight the Yankees will be 5.5 games behind Toronto and 3 games behind Boston in the East, and they're only 1.5 games up on Texas for the final wildcard. They're not in a shoo-in to make the playoffs.

Mets return the favour after loading the bases with 1 out. On to extra innings.

Tigers have averaged 6.4 runs scored the past 8 games and have scored 6 or more runs in 6 of those 8 games. Last night’s shutout was the outlier.

Tigers win! 1:58 time of game. 6-2 in past 8 after the 1-12 stretch. Unlikely to gain ground on Cleveland or Houston who are both winning big, but KC is losing big and Toronto begins shortly. Update: Mets have just scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 6th after the Guardians scored 5 runs in the top of the 6th, so it's 5-3 with plenty of ball left to play.

You can't walk someone with 2 outs and a 3-run lead.

Double plays helping us tonight.

Another putout for Wallner!

Good call by Andy Dirks, he saw that coming! 5-3 Tigers.

Exactly.

Tie game!

1-0 after 4. Each team with 1 hit. Someone needs to tell this punk to stop striking out Tigers.

No Tigers struck out in the 3rd inning. Baby steps.

You build for the playoffs by having Andy Ibanez available to pinch hit.

Even when a 98-win team is playing an 86-win team, a playoff tournament can resemble a crapshoot. But that will even moreso be the case if you have a bunch of 90-wins vs 94-wins matchups.

One of my favourite movie scenes is set in Vienna. From the movie Before Sunrise with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Morton: 6.0 IP, 1R, 4H, 1BB, 6K

This series has lived up to expectations

That was our chance. 1-0 Phillies at the 7th inning stretch.

0-0 after 1. I have low expectations for this game. So if Morton can give 5-6 innings with, say, 2 runs then that might be a satisfactory outcome win or lose, because it would indicate he might make a real contribution the rest of the way.