Yes, the White Sox and Orioles are last-place teams, and the Yankees are possibly a first-place team. Still, you can only play who’s on the schedule, and New York has rounded itself into postseason form over the past week. The bats were loud again today, the starter was excellent, and with the Blue Jays not taking the field until this matinee was already in the seventh inning, pressure was put on Toronto with the Yankees’ big 6-1 win, the club’s seventh straight and 10th of its last 11.

As you can probably guess, the man who should be MVP got us started in the bottom of the first:

That was Judge’s 53rd of the season, which if his lead in the batting average table holds, will be the most home runs hit by a batting title winner ever. It also tied him on the career HR list with Manny Machad

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