A one-hit game is a perfect game with a single smudge on it, and the Yankees were the smudge.

Drew Rasmussen and Bryan Baker took Game 1 of the American League Division Series from the Rays' side of the ledger on Saturday night, and the whole of New York's offense fit in one hit. Two pitchers, one hit, one loss.

Picture the manager the morning after with the card in front of him. Down 0-1 in a five-game series, a calendar that gives no refunds, and a lineup that just spent nine innings managing one hit. In the top of that card, where the best hitter in the sport usually sits, there is a hole where a name should be. Aaron Judge is missing from the Yankees' roster for this series, according to ESPN's source.

The hitters who stood in on Saturday did so with the biggest bat in the building absent from the on-deck circle, and the pitchers saw nothing to fear on the other side of the order. Rasmussen and Baker did what pitchers do with a gift: they kept it.

The best-of-five format gives the Yankees more games to find a second hit, and arithmetic is on their side only if the card changes. Tampa Bay needs two more wins. New York needs a lineup that looks like New York.

Game 2's card is the next thing to land. Check the top of the order first, and see whether the name that matters is on it.