A pennant race lives on scoreboards, of course. It is 2018, so there is little need to rely on them, even the newfangled ones that update in real time. In the stands, you can watch the Red Sox record their daily victory on your phone. In the clubhouse, the TV is invariably tuned to the most relevant game.
The pennant race exists elsewhere.
But it still lives on the scoreboard. So at Yankee Stadium on Sunday afternoon, while a sell-out crowd of 46,192 enjoyed the Yankees’ workmanlike 6-3 win over the Royals, they could monitor the Sox lay a similar beating, 3-0, on the Twins 203 miles away at Fenway Park, in regular dribs and drabs.