Star these last two games. Circle them. These are the kinds of circumstances you find yourself in when the calendar flips to October. Late innings. Extra innings. Make a pitch. Make a play. Win a game. Electrify a crowd.
This is how it happens in October. This is how it goes. Teams die hard. The Royals on Wednesday and the Red Sox on Thursday, they needed these games like oxygen. The Royals are trying to go from 106 losses to the playoffs. The Red Sox are trying to get hot at the right time, collect wins, tip-toe into the postseason.
These aren’t spoilers, saving their best solely to do mean things to the Yankees without any skin in the games themselves. The Yankees? Sure, they needed these games, too. They want to beat out the Orioles, avoid the play-in, get ready for a best-of-five without bothering with a best-of-three. They have a cushion. They can’t afford to play that way.
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