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It's too early to focus heavily on such things, but even though we are 2.5 games back of the second wild card tied with Tampa Bay and chasing Kansas City, of the FIVE half-games that make up that deficit, FOUR of them are LOSSES. You can make up wins because you HAVEN'T played the games yet, but it's much tougher to make up losses chalked up in games you HAVE played. If we play competitively going into the last two weeks of the season, the deficit of those four losses will loom like El Capitan in Yosemite.
The good news right now is that we are chasing only one team. But we will need Kansas City to lose at least four games more than us over the next eight weeks or so.