It all happened in less than a minute at two packed stadiums, a distance of some 800 kilometres from home plate to home plate.

At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the home team scored a dramatic, 3-2 walk off win against the truly awful Chicago White Sox, just a handful of deep breaths before the final verdict was rendered at the Rogers Centre.

The Blue Jays, once comfortably cruising to an American League East title – or so it seemed – went down meekly by a 4-1 count to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night and a dramatic night of late September baseball yielded a wild and worrisome result for the long-time frontrunners.

Just like that, Toronto’s division lead was down to one with just five games remaining for both the Jays and Yankees. Not only did the Jays fail to reduce their magic numbe

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