I look at it this way. Tomorrow is game 62, so after that will be 100 games left exactly. Let's just say they win tomorrow (what the hell, JJ is due). If they go .600 from that point on (a % a lot of people thought they had a chance to do before this season), that's 60 wins plus the 28....gets them to an 88-74 finish. That might actually win the 2nd wildcard (before last season the 2nd wildcard, if it existed, would have won between 87-89 games in the AL). Even if it didn't, it would probably come close and make September pretty interesting. That's probably the far end of the "reasonable hope" curve. It probably won't happen. But it's the kind of thing that has to happen if September is not going to be another boring one.