The Cubs won 3-0 last night and I started thinking about their magic number. This crazy season has just about 20 days left before the postseason starts, and now is as good as time as any to start looking at playoff- and division-clinching scenarios. Because the Cardinals still have so many makeup games left, things get a tiny bit cloudy when trying to construct some sort of synopsis.
Cardinals have 5 double-headers in the final 2.5 weeks of the season. That's a very tall order. Even at 7 inning games, that's 14 innings a day.