The Detroit Tigers have been in first place for almost the entire 2025 season and now have a reachable magic number. Here's ...

The Chicago Cubs enter Friday’s game with the Tampa Bay Rays with a magic number of eight to clinch a playoff berth. Chicago (83-63) has been chipping away at ...

Sunday wasn’t a good day for the Chicago Cubs when it came to trying to reduce their magic number to clinch their first playoff berth since 2020. The Cubs lost to the Colorado Rockies, 6-5, to end a 5 ...

A magic number represents the number of games a team needs to win – or their closest opponent needs to lose – for that team to clinch a playoff spot, a division title, a first-round bye, or home-field ...

The Detroit Tigers are looking for their second consecutive playoff berth. Here's what they need to do to make sure it happens.

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...