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 Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees became the first two teams to clinch spots in the 2024 MLB playoffs, earning respective tickets in the National League and American League.

If the New York Yankees had any sympathy for the plight of the A’s — a team that now has just five home games remaining at the Oakland Coliseum — that sympathy wasn’t expressed between the chalk lines.

Pregame analysis and predictions of the New York Yankees vs. Oakland Athletics MLB game to be played on September 21, 2024 on ESPN.

Oakland A's players made some small gestures to the fans at the Coliseum to show their appreciation with the New York Yankees in town.