PHILADELPHIA -- With the games remaining on the schedule quickly running out, each night out becomes crucial for a Miami Marlins team trying to make a late run at a National League wild-card spot.A crushing 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in 13 innings on Friday night halted a run of five wins in seven games, costing the team a chance to climb above .500 and instead dropping the Marlins to 73-74. That comes after a horrid 1-10 stretch from Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 that nearly ruined their playoff chances.Every one is painful from the standpoint of you know where youre at, and you have to think about winning absolutely every game, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. Every one is tough, it hurts, you know, and thats just the way it is this time of year.If you have a team that cares and is trying to obviously fight for stuff, which I know we are, these kind of rip your heart out a little bit, but youve got to bounce back and keep playing because you still never know.Those 11 games were enough to send Miami from 1 1/2 games out of the two wild-card spots to six games back, though theyve battled back to cut that down to four games behind with 15 to play.Two teams are ahead of them for the last spot: St. Louis (76-70) is three games up on the Marlins but still two games back of the New York Mets, who remain in control of their own destiny after beating the Minnesota Twins 3-0 at home on Friday night.Miami has three games left against New York on Sept. 26-28 but first has to navigate two more against Philadelphia and then three each against Washington and Atlanta before the Mets visit south Florida.To keep the momentum going, Mattingly will turn to Saturday night starter Jose Urena, whos coming off the best outing of his two-year professional career. Urena beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 and came one out shy of a complete-game shutout, pulled after 8 2/3 innings with four strikeouts and no walks.Since moving into the starting rotation in July, Urena is 3-5 with a 3.88 ERA.Philadelphia, which isnt yet officially eliminated from playoff contention for the fifth straight season -- it wont be much longer, with an elimination number of three -- sits 12 1/2 games back of the second wild-card spot.The Phillies will hand the ball on Saturday to Jeremy Hellickson, who enters with a 11-9 record and 3.76 ERA. Hes coming off a win over Pittsburgh on Sept. 12 in which he gave up one unearned run in 6 1/3 innings.In five starts against the Marlins this season, hes 2-1 with a 2.59 ERA, giving up 10 runs (nine earned) in 31 1/3 innings. His last time against them, on Sept. 7, he took the loss, giving up four runs (three earned) in six innings of a 6-0 loss. Devils Jerseys China . 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Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday. Ken Daneyko Jersey Large . How great will be revealed in the next couple of days at the board of governors meeting in Pebble Beach, Calif. There appears to be a caveat in the College Football Playoff selection committees protocol that could keep Ohio State in the top four even if Penn State -- which beat the Buckeyes -- goes on to win the Big Ten.According to the protocol, strength of schedule, head-to-head competition and championships won must be specifically applied as tie-breakers between teams that look similar.Heres the catch: As of right now, the committee doesnt think No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State look similar.Does the selection committee see a small margin of separation this week between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State? We do not, selection committee chair Kirby Hocutt told reporters on Tuesday evening.The committee already has shown it thinks the Buckeyes are a better team by keeping them ranked ahead of Penn State in spite of the Nittany Lions 24-21 win over Ohio State on Oct. 22, but because Penn State also lost to Pitt, their résumés arent comparable.Head-to-head is a factor, Hocutt said, but its one among many others as we continue to go further along in the season and in our evaluation of teams.The question is if Penn State can close that gap by winning the Big Tens East Division this weekend and then the Big Ten title on Dec. 3. In order for Penn State to win the division, the Nittany Lions have to beat Michigan State on Saturday AND Michigan has to lose to Ohio State. In 2014, TCU dropped from No. 3 to No. 6 in the final ranking because it lost the head-to-head result to Baylor.This week the committee members didnt put Penn State ahead of Ohio State, CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said. So obviously the head-to-head was not the sole deciding factor in the case of those teams this week. As usual, the committee is making no statement about the future.The committees raankings are a weekly snapshot of each teams body of work to that point, so theres still the possibility that there would be committee members in the room who would value Penn States conference championship and head-to-head win more than Ohio States impressive résumé, which would include four wins against CFP top-25 opponents.ddddddddddddIts up to each individual selection committee member as to how they prioritize those measurements, Hocutt said.It could all be a moot point if that scenario doesnt unfold, but it also would be a situation the committee hasnt had to deal with yet, as there has not been a team worth considering that didnt win a conference title. If Ohio State wins Saturday but doesnt win the East, it would still have road wins against No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 6 Wisconsin, and home wins against No. 16 Nebraska and then No. 3 Michigan. Its possible no other team in the country could rival that résumé, save for an undefeated Alabama.The committees job is to pick the four best teams -- not the four most deserving -- but its one of this systems greatest debates. A Big Ten champ in Penn State would no doubt be deserving.But it is really one of the four best?Yes, thats what we do for hours and hours and hours over the course of two days each week is we focus on who is the best college football team, and as we analyze those teams and their performances, obviously were watching, were looking at the film if were not watching the games live, and then were also studying the statistics and analyzing all the data in front of us, Hocutt said. You know, we always have a focus on who are the best football teams up to this point in the season. 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