They could breathe again, the 46,306 stiffing the grandstands and the bleachers, so they let loose with an old-school roar, one that reached all the way back to around 2003 or so, back when the Red Sox and the Yankees could turn old Yankee Stadium into a calliope of joy and wonder and deafening thunder, a pingpong marathon of light and color and sound.
Aroldis Chapman was in trouble and then he wasn’t, the Yankees’ 5-3 lead was in peril, and then it wasn’t, because J.D. Martinez rolled into a double play and Rafael Devers bounced out to first, and that 5-3 lead was a 5-3 win, and the Yankees were 19 games above .