It’s officially scoreboard-watching season. Now that the regular season is measured in weeks instead of months, many fans will be checking to see what the Detroit Tigers did just seconds after the conclusion of the Indians’ game that day.
And in clubhouses around the league, players will have the day games on the TVs that matter to their race, keeping tabs on their rivals. It isn’t that these games count more than those in April or May, but now that the races are sorting themselves out and time is running out, the stakes are right up in front.