It should’ve been a joyous day at Yankee Stadium, and in a way, it was. Ben Rice’s multi-homer game powered the Yankees to their eighth-straight win to close out the season, the team playing excellent baseball down the stretch to re-assert themselves as clear title contenders. But as we’ll detail, it was for naught; the Yankees, despite the second-best record in the American League, earn the four-seed in the playoff bracket, and are due to play the Red Sox in a massive Wild Card Round matchup starting tomorrow night.

You’ve surely seen the scores by now, but let’s go through just what happened on the final day of the regular season.

Toronto Blue Jays (94-68) 13, Tampa Bay Rays (77-85) 4

The Yankees kept the pressure on the Blue Jays all the way to the end, and in the final days of the s

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