The Angels or the A's?

This being the time of year when baseball gets interesting, I've been paying attention as time allows.

This evening while checking the standings I noticed something that seemed odd. With the A's and Angels tied agani, both have a magic number of 4. I added up the totals and yes, there really are only 3 games left. 4? Then I remembered that it's any combination of wins by one team and losses by the other.

Right now you can toss the magic numbers into the dumpster (along with those tickets for a tie breaker game I heard advertised earlier in the week). Anaheim plays a three games series in Oakland. The winner of the series keeps playing, the loser goes home to sulk with a 90 win season.