Yankees know his win was more important than others

When the Mets beat the Dodgers 10 out of 11 in 1988, that sure didn’t stop Mike Scioscia from taking Doc Gooden deep in the ninth inning of Game 4, and it sure didn’t prevent Los Angeles from ultimately winning the NLCS in seven games.

So maybe the A’s regular-season dominance over the Yankees — not only this season, in which Oakland had gone 4-0 before Saturday afternoon’s matchup in The Bronx, but 28-15 since the start of 2013 — would have meant as little in a hypothetical postseason matchup as the Mets’ supremacy over L.A. 31 years ago.

Or as little as Aaron Boone had viewed it even immediately following Friday night’s 8-2 defeat, when he chuckled at the thought and said, “Oakland has…