![]() The Yankees are also only 0.5 game out of the second WC behind Toronto. So the Rays magic number improved to five after tonight. 20 - The Rays beat the Jays 6-4 while the Yanks inched past the Rangers 4-3. The Rays are six games up on Boston and their magic number remains five. 21 - The Rays lost to the Jays 4-2 while the Red Sox beat the Mets 6-3. Tampa’s magic number is now four, and they did clinch a playoff spot with today’s win. Wednesday, Sept 22 - The Rays beat the Blue Jays 7-1, and Boston won 12-5 over the Mets. The Astros have a bit more work to do to secure the AL West ahead of the Oakland Athletics. As for those other three teams, if everything goes well for the Rays and ChiSox, they could clinch their divisions. The Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies are in a tight race to see who wins the NL East, but that division likely won’t be decided until the final week of the regular season. The other three teams who will have a chance to cut into their magic number or clinch the division include the Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox. The Brewers are the closest team to clinching a division title and will have a shot to do so this week. The Giants and Dodgers are in a tight race to see who will win the NL West division. So far we’ve had three teams lock up playoff berths with the Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers. However, the White Sox faltered down the stretch and ended the shortened season one game behind Minnesota.We’ve got two more weeks left in the 2021 MLB regular season and we’re still waiting for the first team to clinch a division crown. ![]() The win ran the Sox record to 33-17, best in the American League at the time, and put them in position to win their division for the first time since 2008 - the last time the franchise made the postseason. The clinching game was a come-from-behind win to beat the Twins, 4-3, getting two runs in the seventh inning. Four times the Sox have scored 11 runs in the fourth inning in their history - this was the final time it’s been done.Ī most bizarre, strange, unusual and Twilight Zone-like pandemic season, the White Sox made the most of it clinching a spot in the expanded playoffs. Richar, Jerry Owens and Fields all had two hits, and Fields drove in four runs in the inning. In addition to the 11 runs, they also collected 10 hits and three homers ( Danny Richar, Jermaine Dye and Josh Fields). The White Sox tied the club record for the most runs ever scored in the fifth inning of a game, when they sent 11 players home at Kansas City. On this day at Minnesota, he’d club three more in a 7-3 win. Harold Baines became the only player in White Sox history to have more than one game with three home runs.īaines had his first three-homer game in July 1982. They’d win the division by a record 20 games over second-place Kansas City. The Sox went to the playoffs for the first time in 24 years, drew a then-record, season attendance of more than two million fans, and had the best record in baseball at 99-63. All nine players in the White Sox lineup that night got one RBI - including pitcher Bart Johnson, who started, gave up eight hits, and struck out 12 in going the distance.īefore a packed house at Comiskey Park, Harold Baines hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Julio Cruz with the run that won the American League West title for the White Sox, as they edged Seattle, 4-3. The White Sox defeated the California Angels, 9-4, at Comiskey Park. ![]()
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