Good morning. It’s the final Outside the Confines of September. Which means playoff baseball is on the way.
- There’s only six days left of the major league regular season and Jeff Passan breaks down all the crazy tiebreak scenarios that could come up in the American League Wild Card chase. It’s not likely to happen, but if you want real chaos you need to root for a five-team tie for the two AL Wild Card spots. That’s a scenario that MLB never even bothered to make a rule to deal with.
- Jay Jaffe breaks down all the remaining races and the wild Wild Card tie scenarios as well.