Look, it’s not ideal. The Yankees and Rangers don’t play an absolutely meaningless game today; they play two of them. Thanks to a quirk of the scheduling (read: Major League Baseball’s lockout greed), a four-game set originally intended to be played across four days in early April was shoved into a three-day period at the beginning of October, resulting in a doubleheader between one team that is locked in as the No. 2 seed and another that has been playing out the string for awhile now.
To some extent, the Yankees are probably fortunate that these games are here.