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Perez had a chance to bust the game open but popped out with the bases loaded. Outcome still in doubt.

Carpenter gets on base for 4th time this game.

Dan squared don’t think the batter tipped the 3rd strike. I’m watching and couldn’t tell.

Wenceel bonehead

Kurtz given the night off. When asked whether he wanted to face Skubal, I wonder whether Kurtz begged off by saying “the horror, the horror”.

Skipper and Meeks cut as well.

I hope they're still thin. I intend to sleep with 7 of them my 2nd night there* (*in the communal room of a mountain hut)

Me too, plus I will be home alone this week so will watch them in quiet. I will be in your time zone next week, except one country over, just as I was early September last year. Instead of the Camino Frances, this year I’m doing the Tour du Mont Blanc starting in Chamonix. The only night games (North American ET) next week are Tuesday and Friday.

Ok, I'll celebrate a game earlier but I will save you a bottle of champagne and lend you my goggles if you want them. 🙂

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.