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We clinched a playoff spot now need to take care of business and win our division. Beating Archer of TB 5-0 first inning :shout::-Cool/"
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Thank you White Sox. The Jays' win and the Yankees' loss brings the Magic Number down.
Also, since the Tigers were nice enough to beat the Twins, the Twins can no longer catch us,
Blue Jays Magic Number to Win the Division: 6
The only team left that can catch the Jays is the Yankees.
Blue Jays 9 games left:
Rays 2 at home.
Orioles 4 at Balitmore
Rays 3 at Tampa Bay.
Yankees 9 games left:
White Sox 2 at home.
Red Sox 4 at home.
Orioles 3 at Baltimore.
Blue Jays Magic Number for Wild Card: 0
So I missed something in the Wild Card numbers. The Angels and the Rangers have a four game series to end the season. For the Angels to finish ahead of us, they have to win every game they have left (and we'd have to lose every game).
And for the Astros to finish ahead of us they win every game they have left, and they have 2 more games with the Rangers. But if the Rangers lose 6 games they would finish behind the Astros in the AL West and they would finish behind us in the Wild Card race.
Magic number is
Thank you White Sox. The Jays' win and the Yankees' loss brings the Magic Number down.
Also, since the Tigers were nice enough to beat the Twins, the Twins can no longer catch us,
Blue Jays Magic Number to Win the Division: 6
The only team left that can catch the Jays is the Yankees.
Blue Jays 9 games left:
Rays 2 at home.
Orioles 4 at Balitmore
Rays 3 at Tampa Bay.
Yankees 9 games left:
White Sox 2 at home.
Red Sox 4 at home.
Orioles 3 at Baltimore.
Blue Jays Magic Number for Wild Card: 0
So I missed something in the Wild Card numbers. The Angels and the Rangers have a four game series to end the season. For the Angels to finish ahead of us, they have to win every game they have left (and we'd have to lose every game).
And for the Astros to finish ahead of us they win every game they have left, and they have 2 more games with the Rangers. But if the Rangers lose 6 games they would finish behind the Astros in the AL West and they would finish behind us in the Wild Card race.
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10-8 was final score. For those that follow proline.
Imagine how much you would have lost on the under.
Imagine how much you would have lost on the under.
It was raining men, hallelujah.
Bringers of champagne showers, these Jays, in their drenched “Take October” tees and post-season ball caps.
Bubbly & cigars: Bottles of champers, shaken and squirted and finally just poured over me-too-me-too heads; fine Havanas proudly puffed, emitting an aromatic fug that floated over the Toronto clubhouse.
This is what a team headed for the playoffs – in whatever capacity, the details still TBA – looks like, feels like.
Boyish and besotted with themselves.
They had said there’d be no big fuss over qualifying for the games of October. But while they were sleeping in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the Blue Jays had clinched a wild-card berth. And though it was only a foot-in-the-door accomplishment, the players could not, in the end, resist the traditionally sodden hoopla.
It’s been such a long time coming, for many — within the locker room and without.
Jose Bautista, perhaps most over-the-moon, grabbed a pair of goggles to save his eyeballs from the sting of Veuve Clicquot. Edwin Encarnacion, cigar clamped between his lips, first dumped the champagne on Bautista’s head and then poured more down his teammate’s gullet. Glug-glug-glug.
Marcus Stroman took his turn for the ritual dowsing. Then a dancing Roberto Osuna. And of course David Price, who wore his mini-pennant T-shirt over his blue velour bathrobe. And maybe this was what the ace had in mind when he purchased those inscribed robes for all his teammates a couple of weeks ago.
“We had a little talk before the game that we weren’t going to do this,” Bautista said. “We weren’t going to do a big celebration, even though getting into the playoffs means a whole lot for our fan base, because they’ve been waiting for so long. We wanted to win the division. But we just got in here and everybody. . . the emotion, the excitement, just took over and we started celebrating.
“I don’t know where they were hiding the champion but somebody got it and it a got a little crazy. But we expect to have another one of these when we win the division.”
A huge crate of champagne that had been put on ice. Dioner Navarro, we know, brought the cigars.
R.A. Dickey, who has never been in the post-season before, flashed a beatific smile. “It took on a life of its own,” he said of the whoop-up. “I was not responsible. We were just going to have a toast and then I think Eddie wanted to go for it, so we did.
“This is the before-party. So imagine what the after-party will be like.”
The rollicking atmosphere wasn’t conducive to, er, sober reflection. But the ever-articulate Dickey took a shot at perspective. “It’s super-special, especially for this particular team. A lot of us came in Year One and we were stinky. Then we got a little bit better. And now we’ve made it. So the three-year plan has worked.”
It wasn’t easy getting here, over the longer haul — and the 22 years since the Jays last passed this post-season way — yet it hasn’t really been that difficult either, certainly not since the all-star break and the remarkable trade deadline deals orchestrated by GM Alex Anthopoulos. Following Saturday afternoon’s 10-8 win over Tampa Bay, Double-A never ventured into the players’ inner domain. But just look at what he has wrought.
“It’s worth some sort of crazy celebration,” Kevin Pillar crowed. “We haven’t lost track of our goals, we want to win the American League East, that was the goal from Day One. It feels good to put this shirt on, put this hat on, know we’re going to the post-season.
“We worked so hard. Think back to spring training, how long ago that was. We did it! This is just the beginning.”
There was a game yesterday, lest that be forgotten, the penultimate home contest of the regular season. A weirdo game too, the marquee match-up which didn’t unfold as expected, with Price going mano-a-mano against his Tampa stud successor, the pitcher who idolizes him, Chris Archer, stud of the Tampa staff. Instead, shockingly, Archer lasted only 3 2/3 innings while Price was lifted after five.
Price whizzed through the first inning, throwing a mere 11 pitches, eight for strikes, setting the Rays down in order. In the bottom of the opening frame, the Jays got busy, both Bautista and Russell Martin cranking homers, racking up an early 5-0 lead.
Felt safe as a bank vault, in Price’s reliable hands, with that 1.95 ERA since arriving in Toronto, 8-1.
The Rays, however, weren’t going to acquiesce without a fight. Price’s location went wobbly in the third and a throwing error by Cliff Pennington contributed to Tampa countering with four runs of their own. It took Price 39 pitches to get back in the dugout.
“I gave up a four-spot in the third and I gave up another one in the fourth, so I think my nickname in the clubhouse is bringer of runs,” Price self-mocked.
Tampa, where Price won a Cy Young award, is the one team he hadn’t been able to beat this year. His four earned runs were the most Price has allowed since the last time he faced Tampa, in late July, as a Tiger.
“I’ll take it,” he said. “If I’m going to give up five, I want it to be on a day when we score 10. So that was good.”
Toronto got two more runs in the third, added another pair in the fourth. Bautista closed out the big-bop offence in the eighth with his second jack of the game, and 39th on the season. Tampa squeezed out three more runs in the ninth off an assortment of Toronto relievers before Osuna nailed down his 19th save. He wasn’t even born yet the last time the Jays were in the post-season.
Gibby: “It was kind of an ugly win but a win.”
Aw, come on. It was a thing of perverse beauty.
