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No one could have blamed the Baltimore Orioles for the sense of hopelessness that must have washed over them during the first inning of Monday afternoon’s game against the Yankees. A familiar script was rolled out the moment Didi Gregorius’s three-run home run cleared the right field wall: Another unforgiving attack by the Yankees against Baltimore’s pitchers, another victory in the Bronx, another pinstriped step forward in an unfettered path to October.
According to Fangraphs, the Yankees have a 99.9 percent chance of getting to the postseason and a 98.