Red Sox Magic Number

The Red Sox magic number is now 13. Any combination of 13 Red Sox wins or Yankee losses will clinch the division title for the Sox.

Both the Red Sox and Yankees won yesterday - this reduced the magic number by one. Boston's 1.5 games up on the Yankees in the East and now just 2.5 games behind the fading White Sox for the best record in the league. It very well could happen that the Yankees, Red Sox and Indians all make the playoffs while the White Sox stay at home to figure out how they blew it so bad (Chicago's lead over Cleveland is just 3.5 games now).