Someone on twitter last night, after Rangers 6 Astros 2 happened, said Texas was now tied with New York.

"That can't be right," I said to myself.  "New York was something like five games up on Texas a week ago."

And yet, as I went to check the game time for today's match, there's Texas at 84 - 69, same as New York.  The two teams are four back of Toronto, who are one back of league-leading Kansas City, who hasn't been playing so hot lately.

In the National League, two teams are likely to pass 100 wins, and three more will likely pass 90.  The tradeoff is that the NL has six teams that may not pass 70 wins this year, while the AL has only one.  In the American League, there are nine teams that could still make 80 wins on the season, only four in the National League.

Is this parity or lop-sidedness?  The AL has led inter-league play this year, 162 - 129.  But, the AL usually dominates inter-league play, yet World Series victories since 1997 are evenly split at 9 - 9.

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