Red Sox Magic Number

With the Red Sox 7-6 victory over the Orioles last night, Baltimore becomes the second team officially eliminated in the AL East. Tampa Bay was the first, last weekend. Those two are the only two teams in baseball who have been officially eliminated so far, though the White Sox cannot finish ahead of Cleveland. The Indians magic number to eliminate Chicago is 1.

Boston now has a magic number of 10 to eliminate Toronto, and 16 to eliminate New York, with 21 games remaining to play.