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Tampa Bay finally ended the last shredlet of doubt by expiring at home to the New York Yankees four hours earlier, and the value of the A's winning was mostly to stay on New York's considerable heels. In fact, they not only didn't do the deed themselves, they watched the team they've been chasing do it for them and stay an arm's length ahead of the Oaklands for the right to host the wild card game next Wednesday. The Elephants have made themselves the fourth-best team in baseball in half a season by not shrinking before the task thrust upon them, by never letting up as they continued to consume starting pitchers at a rate that should be found in last-place teams, by being the equivalent in those 100 days of a 113-win team. Continue to Article

September 25, 2018 3:30:am EST

Aaron Hicks injured his left hamstring running up the first-base line in the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night, another concern for New York heading into next week’s AL wild-card game. Hicks’ 11th-inning double on Saturday drove Didi Gregorius with the run that clinched a postseason berth, and on Sunday the Yankees learned Sunday that Gregorius had torn cartilage in his right wrist during his headfirst slide across the plate. Hicks, who had fouled a pitch off his left ankle just before the double, left Monday’s game with left hamstring tightness. Continue to Article

September 25, 2018 12:49:am EST

Entering the final week of the regular season, it appears all but certain that the A's and Yankees will face off in the American League Wild Card Game. As of Monday, it would be the Yankees. New York leads Oakland by 1 1/2 games and owns the tiebreaker. Continue to Article

September 24, 2018 2:39:pm EST

Aaron Hicks and the New York Yankees reached the playoffs the same way they played the regular season: They got hurt, stood up and kept on going. Hicks doubled home the winning run in the 11th inning , just after a foul ball to an ankle sent him sprawling to the dirt face-first in pain, and the Yankees clinched an AL wild card for the second straight year with a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. It's going to be sore tomorrow, that's for sure,'' Hicks said after limping to his locker, his left ankle taped. Continue to Article

September 23, 2018 12:16:am EST

The Yankees are heading back to the postseason. New York clinched an American League Wild Card spot on Saturday night after beating the Orioles 3-2 on Aaron Hicks's walk-off double in the 11th inning. Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius hustled all the way around from first base to score the game-winning run. Continue to Article

September 22, 2018 8:25:pm EST

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