It's our own 2015 Final Four. We have only 4 series left, and all of them are against the rest of the AL West. This is our last, best, chance to secure that final American League playoff slot. We have games to make up, and not many games left with which to do it.
Here's the deal. We went into the series with Minnesota with only 17 games remaining in the regular season. We burned through all 4, which represents 23.5% of all the games left to play. Now there are only 76.5% of those games left. And we went 1/2 step forward + 1/2 step forward + 1/2 step forward - 1/2 step back.