In the days leading to the Yankees clinching the AL East title, Aaron Boone was often asked about not letting up after the beer and champagne party ended.
Boone delivered the same message Friday, a day after the Yankees locked up their first division title in seven years.
“I am confident we will be ready to go with that urgency every day to the end,’’ Boone said before his club dropped a 4-3 decision to the Blue Jays in front of a Yankee Stadium crowd of 45,270.
It was obvious from Brett Gardner’s and Boone’s reactions to a call by home plate umpire Joe West in the ninth inning that the AL East title was nice, but not nearly enough for the Yankees to forget about posting the best record in the AL to secure home-field advantage in October.