Maybe this is the way it’s supposed to be for the Red Sox and the Yankees: One game that feels like it’s for everything, even on the second night of October. Even the date has historical significance for the two teams, just because just about everything does. Oh, sure. This is the way it was all the way back on Oct. 2, 1949, a one-game playoff between the Red Sox and Yankees to determine the American League champion that year. For both teams, it was the real and memorable end to the “Summer of ’49,” immortalized by David Halberstam in his wonderful book about that summer, and those teams.

Nearly 30 years later, there was an even more famous Oct. 2. That was the season the Yankees came back from being 14 1/2 games behind the Sox in July, finally forcing a one-game tiebreaker that time to s

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