This was a tough day to talk about moral victories, about fringe benefits that have nothing to do with 2016.
With all that has gone wrong in 2016 and everyone who no longer is part of the team, the Yankees actually had a chance — with Seattle, Houston and Detroit all losing Sunday — to leap over the Mariners and Astros in the wild-card race, close to a half-game of the Tigers and, had they completed a sweep of Baltimore, move within 1 ¹/u2082 games of the Orioles for the second wild card.
But the Yankees did not complete that sweep.