August 24, 2019

Yankees still have no clear answer to key playoff question

by Felix Pantaleón

LOS ANGELES — Barring what would be an unforgiveable collapse that would cause a drastic upheaval from top to bottom in the Yankees’ organization, the AL East leaders will avoid the AL wild-card game and participate in the best-of-five ALDS. With an eight-game lead over the second-place Rays in the AL East entering Friday night’s…

Written by Felix Pantaleón

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