In difficult times during the regular season, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone often remarked that the team’s path to the playoffs remained wide open, saying, “it’s right in front of us.”
The same can now be said of the American League title.
After 14 years of wandering through the October desert, the Yankees have stumbled onto an oasis. Or maybe the upsets of the Baltimore Orioles and especially the Houston Astros in the Wild Card Series are more like a baseball parting of the Red Sea.
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The Yankees suddenly loom as favorites to capture their first AL title since 2009, the year they last won the World Series. Boone might not
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