The Chicago White Sox have lost two straight to the Detroit Tigers so they haven’t helped their own clinching cause since Sunday against the Texas Rangers. As a result, they have been asking for some help from the Kansas City Royals. On Monday, they really helped them by sweeping a doubleheader over Cleveland which is really nice. That brought the magic number down from four to two going into Tuesday.
Unfortunately, the White Sox had that aforementioned second straight loss to the Tigers so it stayed at two going into the third game of the series between the Indians and Royals.