The Yankees, who might miss the playoffs if they don’t start to pick it up, won a game in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. They won it because David Bednar, one of the new closers — there’s a bunch — threw his 42nd pitch of a five-out save and struck out Adolis Garcia and his team hung on to win, 3-2. The Yankees are still closer to fourth place than first place in the American League East. But at least they finally won their first game since a trade deadline that was supposed to make them better, and hasn’t.

They did stay ahead of the Rangers in the wild card race. Didn’t fall any further behind the Blue Jays. Now they come home for a series with the Astros, and for Old Timers’ Weekend, having at least gotten a game after five straight losses during which a team that was as close as it co

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