Every loss is a gut punch, every win is like getting teeth pulled. That's the way things are going for the New York Yankees these days. The Yankees salvaged their three-game series with the Texas Rangers on Wednesday afternoon ( NYY 3, TEX 2 ) in a nail-biter. Trade-deadline pickup David Bednar needed 42 pitches to close out a five-out save.

"That's a dawg effort right there," manager Aaron Boone said after the game. "I love that mentality."

The win snapped a five-game losing streak, New York's third losing streak of at least five games in the last two months; that's one more than they had from 2022-24 combined. The win also prevented the Yankees from falling out of wild card position, at least temporarily. Here are the AL wild card standings entering play Thursday:

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