I meant the Yankees practically have to win to keep pace with us which is why they have more on the line, we walk away from this series leading the division regardless.
This.... there is no shame in having your best guys get beat because it's the right decision to put them out there. In fact we also beat up their best pretty good too and the outcome was almost very different.
The way I see it is the Yankees have more to lose this game than us. We're leading the East by at least 1.5 games tonight either way, winning game #1 of the series was perhaps even more important to maintaining our lead by preventing a sweep.