This should've been impossible.
That's what the math said about the Cleveland Guardians' chances of winning the AL Central Division.
This is what The Athletic's Zack Meisel shared on X on Wednesday night:
"On Aug. 25, FanGraphs assigned the Guardians a 0.0% chance to win the AL Central. On Sept. 10, FanGraphs assigned the Guardians a 0.1% chance to win the AL Central."
And here on Sept. 24, the Guardians have a one-game lead in the division with four games to play, and they hold the tiebreaker on the Detroit Tigers.
Cleveland's magic number is 3, and they can drop it to 1 with a win over the Tigers on Thursday.
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The math truly, seriously doesn't add up.
But somehow, the Guardians showed their work and it worked out.
They play like a team that doesn't care if their task is impossible. They're just playing baseball and making magic happen.
On Wednesday night, George Valera was the spark with a monster home run to turn a one-run deficit into a two-run lead.
Steven Kwan and Jose Ramirez delivered key RBI hits later, too.
The Guardians pitching, with starter Tanner Bibee and a stout bullpen, got it done.
For these Guards, it was just another day at the ballpark, another day of defying the numbers and the statistics to do the impossible.
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