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September 22, 2026

7:35 PM PDT

AND THEN THERE WERE SEVEN !

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"MAXIMUM POSSIBLE TIE (THAI ?) -LAND"

2026 :Links not updated yet

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We Began Friday With a Possible Tie Among Nine (9) ALTeams !!!

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That's right, 9 Teams could have tied if we included the two tight Division Races still going on.

NL DIVISION STDGS

NL WILD CARD STDGS

But Hold On, You Say - You Can't Be Serious ! (to quote J. McEnroe)

Yes, We Are - And We're Crunching the Numbers to Prove It.

AL DIVISION STDGS

AL WILD CARD STDGS

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

When We Started This Analysis Prior to Friday's Games, ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE !

By That I Mean, the 9-Team AL Tie Was Possible AND Every One of the 9 Teams Had a

Shot at at Least the 3rd Wild Card; in Fact, Only BAL & TOR Were Out of Their Div Races.

But Just Like in Musical Chairs, Not Everybody Ends Up A Winner. In Fact, with BOS

Clinching a Playoff Spot on Sunday, There Were Only 3 Slots Left (2 Div, 1 WC). So 6 of

the 9 Teams Will End Up Out of the Playoffs. BUT THAT WAS TRUE FROM THE START !

The 9-Team Tie Was A Legitimate Possibility, and if it had occurred, the Tie-Breaker Rules

Would Have Been Used to Determine EVERYTHING: the Central & West Div Winners, the

3rd Wild Card Team, and as a Result, the Six Teams Who Would Not Make the Playoffs.

So Going Forward from Now (Tues. at 6:45 pm PDT), We Will Continue to FOCUS on the

MAX POSSIBLE TIES, recognizing that tied teams could end up partially or even completely

"out of the money", i.e., ties could involve teams finishing in the fourth Wild Card & below.

Teams making the playoffs require a separate analysis - we will try to note significant

events that affect Playoff Clinches, but will remain locked in on our "Max Ties" Objective.

Now On to How Max Ties Looks at Start of Tuesday, Sep. 22nd:

Here are the Two LIVE AL Scenarios AND Tuesday Results Needed to Keep Them ALIVE

81 WINS - 6 Teams from CLE (81 W) down to BAL (76 W)

TUE Result Needed - CLE L, BAL W needed to keep pace

78 WINS - 7 Teams from TEX (78 W) down to DET (74 W), MIN & SEA (73 W)

TUE Result Needed - MIN Needs 5-0 Finish, due to their Mon L to S F

NOTE: Seven-Team Tie Still Possible, But DET & MIN Already ELIM from Playoffs When

CWS Won #80 on Sunday; In addition to DET & MIN, 7 Teams include 3 West Teams

Alive for Div, 2 of those for WC also, AND BAL, TOR Alive for 3rd WC.

(read Truth in Advertising, above, for distinction between Alive for Ties vs. Alive forPlayoffs).

End TUE 7:35 pm PDT Post

WE ARE BACK and OFF TO THE (2026 PENNANT) RACES !!!

(NEW content for 2026 only began on SUN. 9-06 with GIANTS "EARLY" ELIM,

so NONE of the links in the right-hand column have been updated for 2026.

My apologies, but I hope to correct that soon).

Question from 2017:

Why did NL Office take 2 tries to Decide LA had Clinched Playoffs 9-12-2017?

(according to Bill Shaikin of the L A Times)? We may never know.

Previous Headlines

Posted Sun. SEPT. 20, 2026, 11:46 AM PDT

AND THEN THERE WERE EIGHT !

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"MAXIMUM POSSIBLE TIE (THAI ?) -LAND"

Posted Fri. SEPT. 18, 2026, 10:06 PM PDT

MAXIMUM POSSIBLE TIES ?

WOULD YOU BELIEVE 7 TEAMS - IN AL ?

WAIT A MINUTE, THIS JUST IN ! MAKE THAT NINE (9) TEAMS !!!

Posted Fri. SEPT. 12, 2026, 3:56 PM PDT

ONE WIN by EITHER ARI or SD Now Enough for KO !

UPDATE - SD W, NATS OUT @ 3:48 PM PDT (Details Below)

Posted Fri. SEPT. 11, 2026, 3:26 AM PDT

SAT. UPDATE for Western Insomniacs, Eastern Early Risers

Posted Sun. SEPT. 6, 2026, 7:13 pm PDT

BULLETIN:

GIANTS w/ One Foot in Grave - Now It's Two !!

or as Yogi might say, "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over - But NOW IT IS OVER !!

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