Given that the Yankees are currently three games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles in the AL East with 12 games to go for both teams, the Yankees would need at least nine wins/Orioles' losses in order to finish the regular season with the same record as Baltimore. However, in that scenario, it is very likely that Baltimore would hold the tiebreaker.

New York clinched a postseason berth thanks to Anthony Rizzo's go-ahead RBI double in the tenth inning. In the bottom of the tenth, Julio Rodríguez got picked off third when he strayed too far from the bag avoiding Randy Arozarena's bat after he lost it on a swinging strike three. Check it out:

The New York Yankees waited over a year to return to the MLB postseason. One more inning was nothing. With a 2-1, 10-inning win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night-into-the wee hours of Thursday morning,

Unlike some teams struggling to piece together an October starting rotation, the Yankees have several choices.

The New York Yankees are going back to the playoffs. After missing out on the dance in 2023, the Yankees clinched a playoff berth with a wild 2-1 extra-innings win Wednesday night against the Seattle Mariners.