The Yankees have given their rivals an opening recently, dropping games left and right and slipping in the race for the AL’s best record. Thankfully, no one in the AL East has had it in them to make the division much of a competition, but the Yankees lost yet again yesterday, offering another opportunity to make up ground.
Of course, the biggest story around the American League wasn’t exactly the playoff race, but a brush with perfection.
On August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández pitched the last perfect game in MLB, retiring all 27 of the Tampa Bay Rays he faced that day.