KANSAS CITY -- Days like this don't come around very often in the baseball season, especially when there are so few days left, days when you a have a chance to gain a precious game on three of the five teams you are chasing in the wild-card hunt.
The New York Yankees found themselves staring at one of those days on Monday, but instead of gaining that game on the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals, the team the Yankees were playing, they wound up wasting that opportunity in the first inning of their own game.