So, yeah. Not an ideal evening for our boys’ playoff chase hopes. Apart from the Rangers, each staff that the Pink Sox are competing in opposition to for a Wild Card spot gained. These Rangers misplaced to the Astros, their third loss in a row, as they drift out of the race.
The Yankees and Mariners joined the Stros with wins over the Twins and Royals, respectively, placing the Sox within the third Wild Card spot, 2 video games behind the Yanks and .5 behind Houston, whereas the Mariners maintain onto a slim .5 recreation lead over Houston for the AL West.
Now it’s the Cleveland Guardians we have to fear about and, sadly, they’ve fully and completely forgotten the right way to lose. They will’t even lose once they blow a ninth inning lead, as they did final evening in opposition to the Tigers, solely to plate 4 within the tenth to win their fifth recreation in a row and ninth out of their final ten.
So what ought to we as Sox followers be rooting for? We might have reached the purpose the place it’s higher for the Astros the bury the Rangers for good although, in doing so, the Stros would roughly cement a minimum of a Wild Card berth. However scoreboard watching proper now could be sort of irrelevant. The Pink Sox are management of their very own future. They should win.
