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In an eyeblink, they are toe-tips-to-the-brink. In an eyeblink, the Yankees are looking at the potential of a postseason run that could be over after about 27 hours or so. In an eyeblink, the stubborn goblins that haunted them all season — bullpen, clutch hitting, second-guessable decisions — threaten to reduce this whole New York baseball season to a vapor trail.

Once upon a time, the Yankees defeated the Red Sox 19-8 in Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS. We know all about the decades of history that preceded that moment, how the Yankees always managed to give all of New England acid indigestion when it mattered

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