Every once in a while, a team will let an opponent off the mat. On Tuesday, the Toronto Blue Jays picked the Yankees off it.

Midway through the third inning, the Jays had a 6-1 lead. A new raft of all-time highlights - including Vladimir Guerrero going full Man of Steel as he leapt head first into home - had been added to the year-end retrospective.

The Yankees bench was catatonic, and the Bronx crowd didn’t look much better. You were almost feeling sorry for them, except that so many of them had lustily booed ‘O Canada’. And here’s us on our best behaviour. So much for that going forward.

The Yankees got themselves into early trouble with a combination of leaky pitching and atrocious defence. On one play, they managed to make three fielding gaffes equal one Toronto run. Had you been ta

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