New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The number that defines this week for the Chicago White Sox is not three. It is 306.

103, 101, 102 - is a record of institutional patience that few fan bases would accept and fewer front offices would survive. And yet entering the final seven games of the 2026 regular season, the White Sox hold the American League's third wild-card berth by three games over the Toronto Blue Jays and the Houston Astros. The number that matters today is small. The number that explains it is 306.

Small leads carry hidden complexity in the final week of a baseball season. CBS Sports laid out the tiebreaker scenarios in clinical detail this week: a three-way tie among Chicago, Toronto, and Houston would require single-elimination games...