Max FRIED delivered the first pitch of the last day of September to Romy Gonzalez just past 6 o’clock Tuesday night, and so the Yankees began their 226th playoff game since 1995. And it is worth taking a hard look at that number, pondering it, studying it.

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Two hundred and twenty-five playoff games till now.

And now 226.

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