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With their roller-coaster campaign on the line, the Yankees attempted to pour any available ounce of luck into Fenway Park’s ancient red-brick corridors. Bucky Dent, the hero of their 1978 one-game playoff, jetted in from Florida and saw each pitch from a choice seat behind home plate. Aaron Judge carried a speaker in hopes of DJing a clubhouse celebration, and even “Bronxie the Turtle” was listed on the postseason travel roster.
Those feel-good charms were not enough to avoid one final gut punch in a year that was marked by them.