Blue Jays lose grip on third wild card
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While all six division races are more or less settled, there's a handful of teams with just a couple of games for the third wild card spots, with the Cleveland Guardians, Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers fighting in the AL and Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres in the NL.
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Left for dead earlier this summer., the Guardians have turned it on of late, winners of eight of their last 10 games in order to snatch control of the final Wild Card spot. This is still a wide-open race, but Opta does have Cleveland as the odds-on favorite to hang on over both Toronto and Baltimore.
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