Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 18, 2003
Twins Champs

After last night's win, the Twins have pretty much wrapped up the AL Central. I'm sorry to disappoint my readers who are White Sox fans, but the odds are in the Twins favor right now. The Twins magic number is 9 to win the division outright, and they have ten games to play. Of those 10 games, seven are against the Detroit Tigers. Two are against the Indians, and one is against the White Sox tonight. The Twins should be able to take six against the Tigers. In the upcoming three game series, they are sending Milton, Santana and Radke to the mound. The Tigers may get to 120 losses just against the Twins.

So six games against the Tigers takes the Twins magic number to three. I guess they split with Cleveland, which takes it to two. Meanwhile, the White Sox have seven games against the Royals, and three against the Yankees. The Yankees are still fighting for home field, so they won't go easy on the Sox. The Royals would love to finish strong and end up in 2nd place. It's had for me to believe that White Sox would lose less than two games to these teams.

The Twins schedule is easy, the White Sox have it tough. Chicago needed to bury the Twins and they didn't do it. Sure, anything can happen, but it's not very likely.

Update: Aaron Gleeman agrees with me, but I at least gave the White Sox an extra day. The Twins Geek, however is more restrained:


It ain't over yet folks. Even if the Twins win tonight (and they'll need to beat a pitcher of the month candidate to do so), they'll need to keep winning the last week. And before we thing that's a slam dunk, remember the last time this team faced a slam dunk. Back in June, the scheduled looked easy, the lead was large, and the postseason looked assured. And then....

And nice to see 40,000 fans at the game last night.


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