If the Red Sox win their last six games, and if Tampa Bay loses their last six, or if the Yankees lose their last five, then the Red Sox get to have a playoff game. According to however ESPN figures it, the Red Sox's chances improved last night from 0.1% to 0.2%. But if the Red Sox do sweep Chicago and if the Yankees do lose their next two, then the Red Sox possibility of tying the Yankees will become one out of eight permutations, because, as they will be playing the Yankees head to head, each Red Sox win at the end of the season will also result in a Yankees loss. Still, it doesn't look good for the Red Sox.