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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe
dola,
Last year, the White Sox clinched the A.L. Central with 3 games left - and they had a 3-game lead over Cleveland. Even if Cleveland had swept the Sox over the last 3 games (which they didn't, so it's irrelevant) and the teams had finished up with identical records, the Sox would still have been the Central Division champs, and the Indians or Red Sox would have been the wild card.
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I actually think (and I could be wrong, and thanks by the way for the team correction. You're right, it was Cleveland) that if the Indians had swept the Sox, that the Red Sox would not have been wild card, and they WOULD have had a playoff with the Yankees.