Yankees author October classic to stay alive for one more day

There are some nights when The Chairman resonates a little more than others. This was a night like that. It was at 11:37 p.m. when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. smoked one toward third. José Caballero snared it, got to his feet, fed a strike to Paul Goldschmidt over at first, and that was that: Yankees 9, Blue Jays 6.

There will be at least one more game at Yankee Stadium. There will be at least one more whiff of summer. And it was at 11:38 when those triumphant first few notes spilled out of the stadium public-address system. And everyone — everyone — joined in.

This is the 46th season in which “New York, New York” (Sinatra Style) has been on the Stadium playlist. It’s accompanied an awful lot of forever moments here. This was another. The Yankees were down 2-0 before many of the 47,399 had even settled in. They were down 6-1 not long after, and the yard was as quiet as winter.

“We still believed we had a good shot,” Aaron Boone would say.