In a season where you win 114 games, you win in all sorts of ways. You win thrillers and blowouts, games where you play clean, tight baseball, and ones where you play sloppy. Sometimes, you win a game that’s entirely unremarkable, where you simply just get a few more hits and score a few more runs than your opponent.
The Yankees didn’t really do much that was incredible on this night, notching just one extra-base hit against the rival Red Sox. But they put the ball in play against Derek Lowe and nickel-and-dimed Boston enough to cruise to an easy win.