Six games remaining.
Yankees losing today puts both teams at 22 losses.
Twins need to finish with 1 less loss in 6 games than Yankees have in 7.
Tiebreakers if Twins and Yankees finish with same record:
If two teams from separate divisions are tied for a Wild Card spot (remember, there were no games outside of a team's East, Central or West region this year), the next tiebreaker goes to the team with the higher winning percentage in its own division
Twins 21-17 vs Central
Yankees 22-13 vs East
So Twins will lose the tiebreaker and must finish ahead of Yankees.
Twins:
@ Cubs - Berrios vs Darvish - Underdog
vs Detroit - Unknown vs Skubal - Likely favored
vs Detroit - Maeda vs Mize - Likely favored
vs Cincy - Hill vs Bauer - Likely favored
vs Cincy - Pineda vs Castillo - Likely favored
vs Cincy - Berrios vs unknown - Likely favored
Its kind of a big game tonight.
Yankees at Boston today (LOSS) - 4 at Toronto then 3 vs Miami to finish.
Stupid mlb blackouts.
No ESPN?
I'm cheap and refuse to give COX any more of my money.
No extra-legal streaming access online?
I'm lazy as eff, too.
Lolz
Yu Darvish and myself have about the same length hair
That is a less than fulfilling result there.
Worried that the ass bats arrive for the rest of the game and Darvish settles in for a 7 or 8 inn 1 run start.
Productive out. I guess
Against Darvish and with Berrios on the mound - ill take it.
WTF Kepler?!?!?!?!?!?!?
That is a big 0 to put on the board there.
'Bout ready to watch with the sound off
Only just got to turn it on. Who’s the chucklehead on color?
Matt Vasgersian and Alex Rodriguez
puke
WTF, 4ltr?
My screen is blacked out. I was recording this effing game and got nothing.
The preceding game (SF at OAK) was blacked out on the 4LTR, despite being "Sunday Night Baseball".
No biggie for me because I got it on both NBC Bay Area (SF feed) and NBC NorCal (Oak feed, also does Kings games).
But fuckityfuck.
5th inning before they woke the eff up. I need another drink.
You should order dinner from New Orleans......
If only I knew someone who would send me a roast beef po boy.
Progressed from margarita to tequila sunrise.
I think the SF OAK game ran long and the Twins game started on ESPN 2 before moving over to the mother ship.
ESPN was running some skateboarding thing here during the Giants game. Then went black. I cut them no slack. Somebody effed up royally. It was at least 30 minute, closer to an hour after the Giants game. I know because I was watching the Giants on local cable and checked ESPN after, which was finishing the skateboarding.
ESPN shows graphic on NL Cy Young candidates. Guys with 4 wins are leading candidates
Can we assign 1/3 value to season awards? I am sure owners would love to devalue any award-based incentive money.
Does that technically count as a Texas leaguer?
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!!!
Catcher did not exactly hustle after that wild pitch
Garver had no clue there.
Crap.
Love the home runs - but in a must win playoff seeding game I'd love to see team get a runner on 3rd with 1 out home one way or another.
Ayyup. Garver weakly waving at a pitch 6 inches outside did not inspire confidence.
At least Cave hit the ball hard.
I like 7 pitch innings.
Kepleroni!
Bandbox.
Lead off double - lets get him home and get Darvish ゲーム外
And that will do just fine. Kepler.
We sped the game up with the no pitch walk. Maybe we need the no pitch K? Sano had no intention of doing anything other than making 3 shit swings in that AB.
My god is this ARod talking about the Twins catching the White Sox to avoid the Yankees in the playoffs?
How stupid do you have to be to work on air for ESPN?
Very.
I've submitted several applications with no reply. Derp.
Garver with an even worse AB than his previous one as hard as it was to do that.
Andrew Chafin with a very 1980s mustache
I think ARod just called Max Kepler "Matty"
This game has been much more enjoyable listening to Provus & Dazzle.
Garver is welcome to go back on the IL.
Was kinda hoping for a 4-K inning
Lets go Romo
Indeed.
!!!!!!!!!!
Very important win to keep 4th seed in play.
A little closer on the Sox too. Functionally 3 back of them still, but closer.
So, Twins pitching gave up a total of 2 runs in 3 games to the mighty Cubbies, on the road yet. Not too shabby.
I'll take it!