"Last Friday, the Red Sox had a chance to add to their half-game lead over the Yankees for the top wild-card spot in the American League. Now, they're three games back of the Yankees and are sitting in the third wild-card spot with only a 1.5-game lead over the surging Guardians. Any hopes of Boston winning the division have also been dashed."
"The Red Sox enter the weekend 1.5 games ahead of the Guardians, who have one more extra game on their remaining schedule than the Red Sox. Cleveland is at Minnesota for a four-game set this weekend, with a doubleheader scheduled for Saturday. The Guardians close out the season at home with a pair of three-game sets against the Tigers and Rangers."
The Red Sox have slipped into the third American League wild-card spot after a recent stretch of poor results, falling three games behind the Yankees and six behind the Blue Jays in the division. The team holds a 1.5-game lead over the Guardians with nine regular-season games remaining. FanGraphs projects an 82.8 percent chance of making the postseason, down from 90.1 percent last week. Boston begins a three-game series against the Rays, then faces the Blue Jays and Tigers. Boston won the season series versus Cleveland, giving Boston the tiebreaker, so Cleveland must win at least two more games than Boston to pass them.
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