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Yesterday’s games, chewed up and spat back out by four uncles with too much time and not enough shame.
No hot takes. No death threats. Just the scores, the nonsense, and the occasional bad joke about a guy who dropped a routine fly ball.
THIS WEEK AT THE BAR
- Both Sides of Town
Two years after losing 121 games, the White Sox clinched a playoff spot in Kansas City. At almost the same minute, the Cubs clinched theirs at Wrigley. Chicago gets two Octobers. - Stolen in the First
Pete Crow-Armstrong walked in the first inning Thursday, stole second, and became the seventh player in major league history with 40 homers and 40 steals in one season. - The Race Nobody Wants to Win
Houston and Texas are both 79-80 with three games left. Whoever takes the AL West will finish with the worst record of any full-season division champion, or tie it. - Twenty-Five
Cam Schlittler’s last regular-season start lasted three innings. It still counted: his 25th start this year allowing one earned run or fewer, tying Sandy Koufax for the most since 1920. - Over the Catcher
George Lombard Jr. doubled, scored by jumping over the catcher, then hit the tiebreaking homer as the Yankees came back from 4-0 to beat the AL East champion Rays.
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