They didn’t want to let go of the season, wouldn’t let go of it. Even when the game, and the series, and the summer seemed over there would be a little more of a wait because they wanted to take one last, long look at whether Gleyber Torres had maybe beaten the throw from third.
He hadn’t. The Sox won, barely, 4-3, but the nature of how they won didn’t matter as soon as it became official. For six months, the Sox were just a little bit better than the Yankees, and that was how it would be on the final day of the Yankees season.