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The New York Yankees fell 4-2 to the Baltimore Orioles, which means Toronto’s magic number to clinch the American League East drops to five.

Any combination of º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍøwins and New York losses adding to five would give the Jays the division. That means the earliest the Jays can clinch would be Tuesday night when they host the Boston Red Sox.

The MLB released scenarios Saturday morning on how the Jay can clinch a playoff berth. According to reporter Keegan Matheson, one of these two scenarios needs to happen Saturday:

1. The Jays win and one of the Red Sox, Tigers or Guardians lose
2. The Jays lose but the Red Sox and Tigers lose while the Guardians lose both games of their doubleheader

After the Tigers blew a late lead and lost to the Braves on Saturday afternoon, the Jays control their own fate. Win, and they’re in.

AL standings snapshot

º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍø(89-65) has a three-game lead over the Yankees (86-68) in the AL East and is four games ahead of both the free-falling Detroit Tigers (85-69) and Seattle Mariners (85-69) among division leaders.

*The Jays hold the tiebreaker over the other three teams

**The top two division winners in the league skip the wild-card round and head straight to the division series.

Blue Jays

Remaining games: 8

Home games: 6 — Red Sox (3), Rays (3)

Road games: 2 — Royals (2)

Yankees

Remaining games: 8

Home games: 6 — White Sox (3), Orioles (3)

Road games: 2 — Orioles (2)

Tigers

Remaining games: 8

Home games: 2 — Braves (2)

Road games: 6 — Guardians (3), Red Sox (3)