You don't need a calendar to understand baseball's fall season has arrived.
Summer came to a close on the weekend and now in the final week of the Major League Baseball's regular season, teams are dropping from contention faster than the leaves are tumbling.
On Tuesday night, the Toronto Blue Jays saw their "tragic number" turn up when, despite a 10-2 win over Seattle, they were eliminated when the Kansas City Royals defeated the Cleveland Indians, 7-1. Entering play Wednesday, Toronto trailed the second wild card team by six games with five games remaining.
Three teams began Wednesday with a tragic number of one. One more loss by the New York Yankees, Cleveland and Milwaukee Brewers, or a win by the second wild card team, would eliminate each of them.
In an afternoon game at Yankee Stadium, New York fell to American League East champion Baltimore, 9-5, so another team was down and out.
In the evening, the Indians were trying to stay alive against the Royals in Cleveland, while the Brewers were in Cincinnati against the Reds.
Four of the five playoff teams have been decided in the National League, with Milwaukee holding a mathematical chance to tying the San Francisco Giants for a wild card spot. They made good on the first part of the equation, shutting out the Reds, 5-0 on a two-hitter by Kyle Lohse.
In the AL, the Anaheim Angels and Baltimore Orioles have locked up the West and East titles, respectively, and will host the best-of-five American League Divisional Series.
At the start of Wednesday, AL three teams had hopes of joining them along with Detroit, the AL Central leader, plus Kansas City and Oakland, the current wild card holders. But already that number has been reduced to two and the Seattle Mariners extended their losing streak to five games and saw their tragic number slip to two.
The Mariners loss, their third in Toronto with one more game tomorrow afternoon, allowed the Detroit Tigers to clinch at least a wild card spot. The Tigers are battling Kansas City for the AL Central title.
Playing at home, the Indians lost an early lead but came back to down the Royals, 6-4, to keep their tragic number at 1. Each has four games remaining.
Check back tomorrow, the flurry of teams falling by the wayside may continue.
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