After losing Tuesday's American League Wild Card game to the Houston Astros, Joe Girardi has defended the job he did as manager of the New York Yankees this season.

"I did what I thought was right every day," Girardi said.

New York led the AL East by seven games in late July but finished 87-75, six games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays.

Girardi acknowledges "people thought that I could have done better. I understand that, and so you live with it."