It is Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in the current New York Yankees season.
The team is in great position at 87-63, three games ahead of the rival Baltimore Orioles in the AL East. Better yet, the Yankees are the best team in the American League and just took three of four from the hated Boston Red Sox.
Add that the Yankees begin a short west coast trip in Oakland this evening—and after having Monday off—and one would think these Yankees are playing with house money. Oakland is already out of the playoffs, and the next series is against the fighting-for-their-playoff-lives Seattle Mariners.