Blue Jays can clinch AL East
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Survive, advance, repeat. The Blue Jays are trying to run out the clock on their first American League East title since 2015, and with Friday’s 4-2 win over the Rays, there are only two days left on the clock.
In turn, the Red Sox will be making their first trip to the postseason since 2021, when they lost to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. Boston can credit its success to a few key contributors in particular.
With two games left in the regular season, the victory kept the Yankees tied with the Blue Jays atop the American League East, as Toronto beat the Rays in Canada on Friday. The Jays hold the tiebreaker over the Yankees thanks to their 8-5 head-to-head record, though.
The New York Yankees are tied for first place with the Toronto Blue Jays. It's the closest they've been to the top of the division since early July, when the Ya
Giancarlo Stanton hit two-run homers in consecutive at-bats and drove in five runs Friday night as the host New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-4 and remained tied for first place in the American League East.
The Toronto Blue Jays became the American League's first team to clinch a playoff berth on Sunday with an 8-5 win over the Kansas City Royals ( box score ). Four teams have already laid claim to a spot on the National League side of things: the Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
With their sweep of the Chicago White Sox complete, the New York Yankees are facing their last three games of the regular season, hoping to clinch a division sp
The New York Yankees 2025 regular season has been an emotional roller coaster for both the fans and the players, but thanks to a ninth-inning rally against the Chicago White Sox, the Bronx Bombers are heading back to the postseason.
The Yankees did their job. The Rays did not. And so the Yankees will head into the penultimate day of the regular season still needing some help if they are actually going to come all the way back to leapfrog the Blue Jays for the AL East title and a bye into the ALDS.