Through today's (Sunday's) games, we find the AL East standings:
1. Boston 48-26 (.649)
3. New York 26-27 (.493)
The Yankees are 11 back, but let's play with the rest of the schedule.
If Boston maintains that .649 for its last 88 games, they'll go 57-31 (.648) for a final record of 105-57. Yow. To match that, the Yankees would have to play 69-20 (they have 89 games left) for a .775 winning percentage. Gotta say that that is not going to happen.
If Boston stumbles to a .500 record the rest of the way (44-44) and winds up 92-70 (.568), the Yankees would need to play 56-33, a .629 pace, to tie on the last day. Possible but extremely difficult.
It's not over until the magic number reaches zero, but it ain't lookin' too good in da Bronx, izzit?
Tick-tock, tick-tock,...
2007-06-24
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