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Originally posted by spookyfish
Since I double-posted, I'll answer your additional question here.
ETA: What Cleveland does only makes a difference in who wins the Wild Card berth.
Besides the division winners, Baseball allows one other team (the remaining team with the best record, regardless of division) a playoff berth.
The Sox are playing now for the wild card.
Right now, the Sox' record is one game better than Cleveland's. If the Sox win tomorrow, they're in no matter what Cleveland does.
If they lose, and Cleveland wins, Boston and Cleveland have the same record, and will play a one game playoff (technically the first post-season game, I guess) to see who gets the right to go on as the fourth team in the playoffs.
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I got the whole wild card thing, as I wasnt introduced to baseball yesterday (though I have lost interest in it and am curious as to why the Angels are now Los Angeles). And I am still not clear on why the Yahoo article, and yourself, cited to the Cleveland loss in the analysis of the Yankee clinch.
