NEW YORK – Many of the men who returned quietly to the visitors clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night wasted no time showering, changing into their travel clothes and packing their bags.

Not Alex Bregman, though. As the room emptied out, he sat in front of his locker, in uniform, until after 11:35 p.m.

His postseason streak had continued into a ninth consecutive year, but only just.

“Remember this feeling,” Bregman said he told his teammates, “because it sucks. You don’t want to feel it. Take it into your offseason, continue to get better. I think you can look around the room and say that every single player in this locker room got better as the year went on, and there’s no steps back now. It’s only steps forward.”

Across the clubhouse, Trevor Story shared in his pain, but for

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