It was a sloppy Friday night affair in the Bronx — one that left the Yankees’ final playoff position murky heading into the regular season’s final two games. The Yankees made four errors en route to a 4-3 loss to the Miami Marlins in 10 innings. The Marlins’ win clinched the team’s first playoff berth since 2003, when they went on to beat the Yankees in the World Series.
It was a game the Yankees may rue, as they now sit just one game ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays, who beat the Baltimore Orioles in Buffalo, leaving open the possibility that the Yankees could slip into the eighth seed in the American League and have to face their division nemesis, the Tampa Bay Rays, in the first round.