Yankees' Luke Weaver, Devin Williams secure ironic final tribute on Jackie Robinson Day

When the curtain rose on 26 New York Yankees facing 26 Kansas City Royals, all with Nos. 42 stitched on their backs on Tuesday night, Jazz Chisholm's subtler tribute to Jackie Robinson quickly became clear. Typically No. 13, Chisholm reworked his whole outfit to embody Robinson, hiking up his pants the way the trailblazer would've nearly 80 years ago.

When the curtain fell, the Yankees had turned the entire two-and-a-half hour game into a second, fitting tribute to Robinson.

New York trailed until Austin Wells worked a leadoff walk after two consecutive walks in the sixth had forced Michael Wacha, midway through familiar dominance, from the game. With two strikes on him, dynamic rookie Jasson Dominguez flipped the game with a three-run double that also happened to knock out his contact lenses and send him to the bench.

It was hustle that evoked the best of Robinson's era, with a cavalry of Yankees following in rapid succession across the plate. Unlike Yogi Berra always claimed of Robinson's mad dash, they were all safe.

Gifted the lead, the Yankees' bullpen polished things off. The effort was led by Luke Weaver wriggling out of Max Fried's jam in the seventh, then retiring the dangerous Bobby Witt Jr. and the heart of the order in the eighth. He handed the ball to Devin Williams, also on the second day of a back-to-back.

It was on this day that Williams became a Yankee, sending Kansas City down 1-2-3, and finishing the game by getting the suddenly energized MJ Melendez to swing over a particularly dirty changeup. Final score? Another 4-2, of course.

Yankees' Devin Williams, Luke Weaver locked down one final Jackie Robinson tribute vs. Kansas City Royals

If you thought Williams was fired up when he put the San Francisco Giants to bed on Saturday, his reaction to Tuesday's win ratcheted up the intensity. It was Tuesday that he may have finally become a comfortable Yankee, and he did so on a tentpole day across Major League Baseball.

The Yankees' tenacity, top to bottom, was on full display on Tuesday against a familiar foe. Fittingly, they finished the game off and put it in a frame in a manner that No. 42 would've been particularly proud of, during an increasingly difficult stretch where his memory somehow means more than usual.