The playoffs start tonight. Someone should tell the Yankees. They're going in like a cramped-up marathoner crawling toward the finish line. Over the final week of the regular season, they lost six of their final seven games, getting outscored 47-23 in the process by the Red Sox and Orioles, two teams who finished .500 or worse for the year. The starting pitching was bad. The offense was bad. Even the usually invincible Dellin Betances got tagged for two losses. That week of horror capped off an uninspiring final month that saw the Yankees get bludgeoned out of the AL East race by the Blue Jays and very nearly blow home field advantage in the wild card game.
Does it matter that the Yankees have backed into the playoffs?
