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Originally posted by spookyfish
I'll type more slowly.

If the Red Sox win tomorrow, they will have an identical record to the Yankees, which would mean there was a tie.

Major League Baseball has these things called tie-breakers, in case of just such an eventuality between teams in the same division.

The first tie breaker is the "head-to-head" record.

After looking it up, counting tomorrow's game, the Yankees and Red Sox will have played each other 19 times.

With New York's win today, they have won 10 games against the Red Sox this season.

Even if the Red Sox win tomorrow, they will have no more than 9 wins against the Yankees this year.

So, even if we were to assume the Sox win tomorrow, the Yankees win the tie breaker with a record of 10-9 in head-to-head meetings, so they clinched the division today.

Got it now?

Is there any provision for a win to count double? A super-duper win, sts. Then it could be 10-10, no?

eta:

[true story] When I was child, in my youth, my hood played a regular summer season of whiffle ball, in addition to all of the kids playing little league ball. At my whiffle ball field, ie my parent's backyard, in the middle of what would have been centerfield there was a faux-decorative well house (it covered the artesian well cover-this was the country). If you hit the whiffle ball and it landed in the well house on the fly (which was tough as the opening was about 2' x 2' and there was a roof over it) it was an automatic grandslam (regardless of runners on base). IN 5 or 6 seasons there were only 3 of these ever. We made a plaque. It was big tyme shite in our hood. [/true story]

Does MLB have anything like that going on?