No matter what happens over the next five days, the New York Yankees will play in October. That much is known, following Jose Caballero’s walk-off RBI single to defeat the White Sox on Tuesday. Everything else, however, is up in the air.

The Yankees are tied with the Blue Jays in the AL East, their closest encounter since early July, but still need to make up a game in four days because of losing the tiebreaker. They sit three games ahead of the Red Sox for home-field advantage in the Wild Card Series, and a combination of two more Yankees wins and/or Red Sox losses will clinch, at least, the No. 4 seed. Boston’s only avenue to leapfrog or beat them through their own tiebreaker is to go undefeated while the Yankees go 1-3 or 0-4, or to go 3-1 while the Yankees go winless against the White

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