The Magic Number

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Which raises the interesting question: when was the last time the Sox clinched by beating their closest rival, and thus went from 2 to 0 in a single contest?
Does 1967 count? The Sox closed out the Twins on the last day of the season (the Twins were tied going into the day), while the Tigers were half a game back entering the day. They won the first half of a double-header, but lost the second. Had the Tigers won that game, they would have tied the Sox and a 1 game playoff would have ensued.
 

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Does 1967 count? The Sox closed out the Twins on the last day of the season (the Twins were tied going into the day), while the Tigers were half a game back entering the day. They won the first half of a double-header, but lost the second. Had the Tigers won that game, they would have tied the Sox and a 1 game playoff would have ensued.
It happened in 1904 as well - the Yankees finished 1.5 games back, and the Sox closed out the year with a 3-2 series win (Friday in NY, Saturday double-header in Boston, Monday double-header in NY).
 

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Which raises the interesting question: when was the last time the Sox clinched by beating their closest rival, and thus went from 2 to 0 in a single contest?
The '67 example is probably the closest, even though other stuff had to happen that day. This game in '86 clinched while eliminating the closest rival (the mfy had been knocked out the day before, the Jays were still alive) but the magic number was 1 before the game.
 

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The wrong side of the bridge....
The '67 example is probably the closest, even though other stuff had to happen that day. This game in '86 clinched while eliminating the closest rival (the mfy had been knocked out the day before, the Jays were still alive) but the magic number was 1 before the game.
Wow. I'd forgotten that Oil Can clinched that division title with a 9-K complete game. Nice cap to a solid year for him.
 

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Bad juju to jump ahead ... let's get this thread back on track.

The number is
 

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'have no fear, little fish,'
said the cat in the hat.
'these Things are good Things.'
and he gave them a pat.
'they are tame. oh, so tame!
they have come here to play.
they will give you some fun
on this wet, wet, wet day.'
 

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The only pilot other than Luke who survived all three original movies:

Well, that assumes the no-named/not-pictured Y-Wing pilot who made it out of the Battle of Yavin didn't survive through the Battle of Endor. (And that the 2nd X-Wing shown escaping the Death Star explosion was Wedge or another non-survivor.) </nerdalert>
 

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Well, that assumes the no-named/not-pictured Y-Wing pilot who made it out of the Battle of Yavin didn't survive through the Battle of Endor. (And that the 2nd X-Wing shown escaping the Death Star explosion was Wedge or another non-survivor.) </nerdalert>
Han wasn't flying during the Battle of Endor.
And I can't speak for the Y-wing pilot being at both, but the 2nd Xwing escaping Death Star v2 was shown to be a different pilot than any who saw face time during the Battle of Yavin.

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