One of the fun things about baseball, and sports in general, is that they can generate wonderful pieces of theater and skill even devoid of stakes. That’s what the Yankees did yesterday, avoiding the ignominy of getting no-hit while staging multiple extra-inning comebacks and securing a wild win. It all ended up getting overshadowed by the Jasson Domínguez news, but so it goes.
But there’s also a lot of high-stakes baseball going on, and that’s what we’re here to discuss. Let’s go through what happened as a number of big series wrapped up on Sunday.