This Could Be The Night

The Tigers' magic number to clinch the Central is two. Any combination of Tigers wins and Indians losses equaling two mean post-season for the first time since 2006. And the Indians, as I write, are losing, 6-1 at Texas after six innings.

The Tigers are playing at Oakland, and start in about an hour. 

Good and wonderful things, as they did earlier this season, may happen again in the wee small hours of the morning. 

Meanwhile, at Fenway, the D-Rays are showing the Red Sox how the game of baseball is played, leading 9-1 after seven. The Sox are 3-11 in September, their once-commanding wild-card lead has shrunk to three games, and Big Poppy says: push it --