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- Updated: September 29, 2016
NEW YORK — The backdrop was surreal.
A hollow Yankee Stadium with clusters of Boston fans in attendance chanting, “Let’s go Red Sox,” in a place Boston never felt welcome. Mark Teixeira’s walk-off grand slam for a 5-3 Yankees win on Wednesday shocked the Red Sox as they slowly trotted off the field and into the dugout.
But the unsettling feeling left the park just as fast as Teixeira’s blast. Toronto had already lost, 3-2, to Baltimore on Wednesday, so the Red Sox were going to clinch the division with or without a win.
• Red Sox win 3rd AL East title in 10 seasons
Sure, the Red Sox didn’t get to swarm the field in a blurry mess of jubilee in front of the city that despises them the most. But as players made their way to the clubhouse donned with endless carts of bubbly, the Red Sox celebrated anyway.
“So crazy,” David Ortiz said in his swan song season. “I wanted to celebrate on that field so bad, but it is what it is. We end up being the first-place team in the American League [East] and we’re going to …
