The Yankees won their sixth straight game and third straight against Boston, pushing their archrivals to just a game away from getting mathematically eliminated from the postseason. That’s a nice little bonus for them, but the Yankees’ goals are mainly to wrap up the division and get healthy — the rest of the field can fight for the scraps. Speaking of, the Wild Card hunt is still cutthroat, and yesterday had several narrow results that swung in some teams’ favor:
These two AL East rivals are neck-and-neck for the top Wild Card spot at the moment, and they both sent out two aces in Alek Manoah and Drew Rasmussen looking to break out of a dead-even tie in the standings.