NEW YORK — A decade is an especially long time in baseball years so some of the details from the Toronto Blue Jays’ memorable 2015 season, like the four-game September series at Yankee Stadium that helped seal the AL East, are understandably hazy for DeMarlo Hale.

Then John Gibbons’ bench coach, now John Schneider’s associate manager, he recalls taking the first three games of that clash and Marcus Stroman returning from a knee injury to help sweep a Saturday doubleheader after rain postponed the Thursday opener. The Blue Jays arrived at the Bronx atop the division by 1½ games. After dropping the finale, they left up 3½, the Yankees getting no closer than 2½ the rest of the way.

“Yeah, I remember all that,” said Hale, “vaguely.”

Fresher in his mind are some of the parallels between the

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