Red Sox enter final week of regular season with less than 1 percent chance at making playoffs
The Red Sox are technically still alive in the AL Wild Card race. Realistically though, plan to have some free nights come October.
Twins still in playoff picture, but odds worsening with six games left
It all comes down to this, one final week of the season to decide the Twins’ postseason fate. While the Twins’ odds to make the postseason at one point were around 95 percent, they now sit at 54.5 percent with six games left to play after a disastrous road trip to Cleveland and Boston during which they went 2-5.
Twins fall out of playoff position after two blowout losses to Red Sox
BOSTON — Win, and they would move into the second wild-card position, tied in the standings with both Kansas City and Detroit, both of whom they hold the tiebreaker over, with six games left in the regular season.
Twins’ disastrous doubleheader at Boston leaves them outside playoff picture with six games left
The records say the Minnesota Twins are no longer a playoff team. The eye test matches those analytics. The Twins closed a horrific road trip with a historic day at Fenway Park on Sunday, falling to the Red Sox by a collective score of 17-4.
Twins swept in DH, fall out of playoff picture entering final week
The Twins’ postseason chances became ever more tenuous on Sunday, as they were swept in their doubleheader at Fenway Park, dropping the nightcap 9-3 after an 8-1 loss in Game 1. The Twins started the day with a half-game lead for the third American League Wild Card spot,
Devastating doubleheader puts Twins on outside of playoff picture with 1 week to go
Sunday could not have gone worse for the Minnesota Twins as they were swept by the Red Sox in a doubleheader at Fenway Park while the Detroit Tigers beat the Baltimore Orioles to move into the final wild-card spot in the American League playoff race.
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