None of that stayed close for long. New York is chasing Tampa Bay in the AL East while sitting comfortably atop the Wild Card race, and a get-well game against the majors' most beaten-down team was never going to test that positioning.
The Yankees broke it open early, scoring in the 2nd and putting up a 4-spot in the 3rd before Colorado ever got untracked, then tacked on a run in the 8th to close it out at 6-1. Colorado's only answer came in the 5th, and by the time Hunter Goodman's group tried to climb back into it, New York's 7 hits to Colorado's 5 had already told the story.
The Polymarket chat leaned into it early — "Judge will homer" drew 13 reactions before the room's busiest stretch hit a little after the first hour, right as New York was piling up its 5 runs across the 2nd and 3rd. By the late innings someone holding NYY was already typing out the final line, off by a bit but not by the direction.
Colorado has now dropped 2 straight to open this set and shows no signs of life with the season winding down, while New York keeps stacking wins behind a rotation and a lineup that just got measurably deeper. The Rays series still looms as the real test; this one was a tune-up.