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[Hank Chinaski]

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?

but that is a meaningless win, right? There will be a playoff, and even though it would be in NY, I think that was decided yesteray and from a coin flip. The "clinching "is meaningless- that was what confused good ole Paigow.