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The American League Championship Series is about the storied Red Sox trying to subdue the storybook Rays, who took a long time to crawl from their first major league game to Friday night’s opener.

Now that the Yankees have been eliminated from playoff contention, they would like an answer about whether general manager Brian Cashman intends to return.

The 1993 Yankees finished that season feeling fulfilled by their feistiness. With the 2008 Yankees, there is a sense of emptiness.

The Tampa Bay Rays arrived in New York, fresh from their two consecutive wins over the Boston Red Sox, which boosted their lead in the A.L. East to 2 ½ games.

The Yankee’s 14th consecutive playoff berth, which would tie a major league record, is at stake, but seems less likely every day.

With the game tied at the brink of a three-game sweep by the team with the best record in baseball, the Yankees, could not pile on when they needed to.

The Yankees are stuck in third place in the American League East and the wild-card race, miles behind the Angels, who are charging toward their best season ever.

The Yankees face the Los Angeles Angels and Mark Texieira, their newly signed first baseman, starting Thursday, in the first of 10 remaining games.

The Yankees are a season-high 11 games over .500 and would climb into a virtual tie for the lead in the American League wild-card race with a sweep this weekend.

Is it a bad omen that the Yankees, even after a weekend sweep of the Oakland A’s moved them four and a half games behind first-place Tampa Bay, have the sixth-best record in the American League?