Yankees Survive, Take 3-1 ALCS Lead Over Cleveland

YANKEES 8 - GUARDIANS 6

The Yankees don't like to make things easy do they?

The Bronx Bombers survived Game 4 in Cleveland, winning by the count of 8-6 as the Guardians once again staged a late inning comeback that had to give Yankees fans in the Bronx palpitations.

Giancarlo Stanton, Getty Images

The Yankees held a 6-2 lead thanks in major part to another monstrous home run by Giancarlo Stanton in the top of the sixth inning. It looked like New York would be on cruise control until the bottom of the seventh inning when things went sideways.

RBI doubles by Jose Ramirez, and Josh Naylor brought the Guardians to within a run at 6-5. Then in the eighth inning, David Fry, who broke Yankee hearts with the game winning homer in extras in Game 4, tied Game 5 by reaching on an infield single to plate Bo Naylor with the tying run.

The Yankees bullpen which had been so good this postseason was charged with four runs, including Mark Leiter who wound up getting the win on Friday night.

Fortunately for the Yankees, the Guardians remain sloppy with the baseball. Another fielding error by Cleveland short stop Bryan Rocchio allowed Jon Berti to score the go-ahead run. Finally Gleyber Torres put the game away with an RBI single to center, scoring Anthony Volpe to make it 8-6.

Tommy Kahnle got the save, working around a hit and a walk in the bottom of the ninth to clinch it.

The Yankees can take a deep sigh of relief, they now lead the ALCS three-games to-one. All New York needs is one more win to advance to the World Series for the first time since 2009.

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