The Yankees head into today’s travel day in just about the best way possible. It was a bit nervy yesterday, New York needing extra innings in Baltimore, but they still won in style, with Ben Rice providing a season highlight with his tenth-inning grand slam. The Yankees still need help to win the division, but if they can keep up this level of play once the competition gets tough come October, they’ll be a threat no matter what their seed in the AL playoffs.

We’ve got one last off-day of the regular season before this final stretch, so rest up. On the site, I’ll have the Rivalry Roundup in the morning, and John will write up the next entry in the 2000 Yankees diary, where things continue to go south rapidly. Also, Maximo runs down the ways the Yankees can still win the AL East, and later,

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