The New York Yankees endured a very familiar postseason fate on Wednesday night: eliminated on their home field by a rival, embarrassed in the postgame celebration. More embarrassing? It wasn't an upset. It wasn't a shocker. It was a team that outplayed them all year long outplaying them one more time.
The Yankees are the Yankees, and they'll always be considered a threat by the prognosticators. As has been the case during Aaron Boone's entire tenure, though, they certainly worried the game's dominant force this season, nor were they expected to be.