Beating a good team three times in a season is never easy. Likewise, the last game of the season is the wrong time for a first loss to a conference opponent.
On an early October day in 1964 with the Yankees and Cardinals tied 1-1 midway through Game 3 of the World Series my mom sent me to Peter Reeves on 231st Street to get a jar of mayonnaise so she could make me a tuna fish sandwich.