<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JJ Picollo tells us that if his starts goes well that Michael Lorenzen could join the club as early as this weekend but says Hunter Harvey is still very stagnant in his recovery</p>&mdash; Cody Tapp (@codybtapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/codybtapp/status/1833530511605829872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

**** Hunter Harvey.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> tonight became the first team *ever* to hold the Yankees to:<br><br>*no runs<br>*no walks<br>*with 14 strikeouts</p>&mdash; Nick Kappel (@NickKappel) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKappel/status/1833682179794113019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Just thought I'd add we're 9-10 with one game remaining of Gauntlet Part Two. Considering we lost Lorenzen and Vinnie, and lost 7 in a row, I'd say that's a pretty successful few weeks, win or lose tomorrow.

JJ this morning said this morning if we went 8-12 in this stretch we would need help, 10-10 feeling good, anything more than .500 real good.

Screw the Nats, they knew he was damaged goods. I'd never deal with them again.

It's pretty well documented that he'd had previous back issues, as recent as this season. If anything, this is on us. But hopefully he's able to come back and contribute positively at some point, even it's next season.

Vote for Salvy!!!

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So the Royals magic number should be...

162 + 1 - 80 - 71 = 12

Any combination of wins by the Royals or losses by the Tigers totaling 12 and we are in the playoffs, with 16 games left for us to play and 17 left for the Tigers.

scratch that, we're 7-3 vs the Tigers with only 3 games left against them so you can remove that +1 as we hold the tiebreaker. Our magic number is 11 PBJ

Doing a little more math here...

If we go 10-6 the rest of the way, the Tigers would have to go 17-0. Here's our possible record first, and what the Tigers would have to do to pass us (and don't forget Boston is only 1 game behind Detroit so they are also in the mix).

9-7: tigers would need to be 16-1
8-8: 15-2
7-9: 16-3
6-10: 15-4
5-11: 14-5
4-12: 13-6

We could limp into this thing and are still probably making it PBJ

Last night was a great win. Hoping that gets Lugo going for the post season and gets some confidence flowing through that lineup.

Last bit of data for your brains this morning, our remaining opponents include:

Yankees (1): 83-62 (.572)
Pirates (3): 69-76 (.476)
Tigers (3): 74-71 (.510)
Giants (3): 71-74 (.490)
Nationals (4): 64-80 (.444)
Braves (3): 79-66 (.545)

The remaining average of opponents win percent per game is .494

Have some math, you guys PBJ

voted and apparently I have a chance to see us play in the WS

Me too!

Yup. 9-3 outside of the shitty 7 game losing streak that was caused primarily by that flukey play in Cleveland. I truly believe if that never happened we sweep Cleveland, split with Houston and take at least 2 of 3 from Cleveland back in KC. That 'play' will likely end up costing us the division. Which sucks. But it is what it is. Gotta focus on what we CAN control now.

We're in pretty good shape now. Would be nice to pick up another win in NY today just to tell the Yanks to **** off one more time. But honestly think we're fine either way. Only team chasing us that we still have to play is Detroit in KC next week. Take 2 of 3 from them and we're golden.