It’s not his style, but Aaron Boone would’ve been justified late Tuesday night, sitting at his usual postgame podium, with the partying Yankees spraying champagne down the hall, to utter a simple, “Told you so.”

Because Boone was the guy we mocked during the ugliest moments of the previous six months, after he’d tell us, time and time again, not to believe our lying eyes. Regardless of who it might be, Boone always insisted (insert Yankee here) was fine, looking better, or his performance wasn’t as bad as the numbers suggested.

With Tuesday’s clincher, Boone was right for the eighth time in his nine seasons at the Yankees’ helm, joining the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts as the only two managers to make the playoffs with such regularity during their first decade. And now, as the Yankees regrouped

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