The Red Sox pulled off a big win on Tuesday night in Toronto, dropping their magic number to make the playoffs to three. With five games left in the regular season, Boston controls its postseason fate .

That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that if or when the Red Sox open up postseason play, they'll almost certainly be without Roman Anthony.

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The rookie star hasn't played since straining his oblique on Sept. 2, an injury that carried an initial timetable of four to six weeks for recovery. Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow issued an update on Anthony at the three-week mark, and he indicated that a return is not imminent.

"There’s still quite a bit of room to get to in terms of baseball activi

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