Six months ago, the MLB schedule makers were looking like absolute geniuses.
Both the Red Sox and Yankees had spent the winter revamping their rosters to make a deep playoff push, and the schedule linked them up for two three-game sets in the month of September – the first in New York and the second in Boston – with the second series wrapping up the season once and for all.
If these two franchises had spent the entire season neck-and-neck, battling back and forth for the AL East title, could there have been a better way for the year to play out?