All you can do when facing elimination in October is take it one day at a time. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing a winner-take-all game, need two to advance, or need three to advance. There’s no point worrying about how big of a deficit you have to overcome, you just have to put one foot in front of the other and find a way to win today.

It was as bleak as humanly possible on Tuesday night. Down five runs in the third inning, your much-maligned bullpen needing to cover 20 outs to give you a chance, a slumbering offense needing to shoulder the load. All of that with a trickling number of outs until your season ends in an embarrassing sweep. At least for one night, the Yankees focused on today and rode the broad shoulders of Aaron Judge to a memorable, season-saving comeback victory.

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