Labor Day is around the corner, which means it’s time to start obsessing over the MLB standings.

Check the division races first. Move to the wild-card standings next. And then pull out the calculator and figure out just what it would take for the Rays to still be standing on the season’s final day.

And the correct answer is:

A miracle.

Every time you think the Rays have rediscovered their footing, they end up sliding back down the hill. With a chance to win a series and make up ground on the team directly ahead of them in the standings on Wednesday, the Rays blew a ninth-inning lead and lost 4-3 in 10 innings to the Guardians in Cleveland.

Closer Pete Fairbanks gave up a one-out homer to Nolan Jones — just his fourth of the season — in the ninth and Griffin Jax surrendered a two-out t

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