Boston Red Sox: First Place Clinch
Boston does not have a first-place clinch number.
Here are the final standings of a scenario in which Boston wins all 29 of their remaining games (102 total), but does not clinch first place.
Final standings for this scenario
| Team | Wins | Losses | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TB | 103 | 59 | 0.636 | 0 |
| BOS | 102 | 60 | 0.630 | 1 |
| BAL | 84 | 78 | 0.519 | 19 |
| NYY | 76 | 86 | 0.469 | 27 |
| TOR | 71 | 91 | 0.438 | 32 |
Current standings
| Team | Wins | Losses | GL | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa BayTB | 79 | 54 | 29 | 0.594 | 0 |
| NY YankeesNYY | 75 | 58 | 29 | 0.564 | 4 |
| BostonBOS | 73 | 60 | 29 | 0.549 | 6 |
| BaltimoreBAL | 65 | 69 | 28 | 0.485 | 14.5 |
| TorontoTOR | 65 | 70 | 27 | 0.481 | 15 |
How the remaining games play out
Each page shows one team's remaining series in this scenario. Green: they win the season series. Red: they lose it. Gray: the series ends tied. The tiebreak verdicts are in the blocks above, and this opens on Boston, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4-9 |
| NYY | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5-8 |
| TB | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8-5 |
| TOR | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7-6 |
| BAL | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9-4 |
| NYY | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9-4 |
| TB | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8-5 |
| TOR | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4-9 |
| BAL | 8 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8-5 |
| BOS | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4-9 |
| TB | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3-10 |
| TOR | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7-6 |
| BAL | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5-8 |
| BOS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5-8 |
| NYY | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 10-3 |
| TOR | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9-4 |
| BAL | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6-7 |
| BOS | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9-4 |
| NYY | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6-7 |
| TB | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4-9 |
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario Results |
Full head-to-head summary for this scenario
Final season series between every pair in this scenario, colored for the row team: green won the series, red lost it, gray tied it. Who wins a tied series is a tiebreaker question, answered in the head-to-head notes above. Boston's row and column are highlighted, and cells in that row are outlined where a note names the pair: solid where the series settled the tie, dashed where it did not.
American League East
| Team | TB | NYY | BOS | BAL | TOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TB | - | 10 - 3 | 5 - 8 | 5 - 8 | 9 - 4 |
| NYY | 3 - 10 | - | 4 - 9 | 8 - 5 | 7 - 6 |
| BOS | 8 - 5 | 9 - 4 | - | 9 - 4 | 4 - 9 |
| BAL | 8 - 5 | 5 - 8 | 4 - 9 | - | 7 - 6 |
| TOR | 4 - 9 | 6 - 7 | 9 - 4 | 6 - 7 | - |