CHICAGO — Talk about a quick change.

After falling to the Twins on Aug. 13 , the skidding Yankees were in third place in the AL East, six games behind the first-place Blue Jays and one game ahead of the hard-charging Guardians for the American League’s third and final wild-card spot.

Off on Thursday, Aug. 14, the Yankees saw the Guardians pull within a half-game and the Blue Jays move 6 ½ games ahead of them.

The Aug. 13 loss dropped the Yankees, who were doing virtually nothing right, to seven games over .500 at 64-57 after reaching their high-water mark of 17 games over .500 (42-25) on June 12.

Though the Yankees falling completely out of a playoff spot still seemed far-fetched, it was, to borrow former Mets general manager Sandy Alderson’s line from a decade ago, “Panic City” amo

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