A week ago, nobody expected that Yankees fans would be scoreboard watching the Blue Jays as much as they were watching their own team in the dying days of the season, but an eight-day stretch that completely turned the division race upside down has led to this. Unfortunately for the Yankees, the Blue Jays woke up from their week-long slumber, navigating a bullpen game to beat the Red Sox 6-1 in a contest that featured a combined perfecto through six innings. This ensured that the Yankees would need to close out a sweep of the lowly White Sox to hold serve entering the final weekend.

After a choppy start, that’s exactly what the Yankees did. Carlos Rodón tossed a quality start and Giancarlo Stanton smacked a clutch go-ahead three-run double in the fifth as the Yankees finished off a three-

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