The first two games of the ALDS could not have gone worse for the Yankees . They didn't just lose both games; they got humiliated by the Blue Jays in Toronto. The Yankees were outscored 23-8 in the two games and outhomered 8-1. The 23 runs are the most ever for any team through the first two games of a postseason series. It has been a thorough dismantling.

"Obviously it feels like the world's caving in around you. You lose two games like that in their building where it doesn't go right," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Game 2. "But all of a sudden you go out there and win (Game 3), the needle can change. There's been a lot of weird things that have happened in baseball this year. This would not be the weirdest, us rallying."

Under the 2-2-1 best-of-five Division Series format,

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