ARLINGTON, Texas — Now, in accordance with Aaron Decide, comes “the enjoyable half.”
After the Yankees closed out the common season with a 4-2 loss to the Rangers, which left them with 99 wins — maybe applicable, on this 12 months of Aaron Decide, they switched their focus to the playoffs, which they’ll start on Tuesday after they host the ALDS opener.
“We’ve proven all of it 12 months: We’ve been on prime and been beat up and obtained again up,’’ Giancarlo Stanton mentioned. “Now it’s anyone’s time and it’s our job to take it.”
They’ll face both the Guardians or Rays, who will face off in a best-of-three wild-card spherical, with all three video games in Cleveland.
Then, they’ll start their pursuit of their first World Collection title since 2009.
“We’ve form of been counting right down to this second for some time now,’’ DJ LeMahieu mentioned. “So we’re able to go.”
They got here up simply in need of their first 100-win season since 2019.
Decide, after saying on Tuesday he needed to play within the season finale regardless of having set the franchise and American League house run information with one sport remaining on the schedule, sat out.
Domingo German obtained one ultimate begin earlier than probably heading into the bullpen for the playoffs and gave up 4 runs in 4 ¹/₃ innings.
Proper-handers Albert Abreu and Miguel Castro, each simply returned from accidents, pitched out of the bullpen, whereas Jose Trevino hit his eleventh house run of the season.
Whereas Decide and Stanton rested, regulars like LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo and Josh Donaldson began, as did Aaron Hicks and Marwin Gonzalez.
Over the following 5 days, Aaron Boone, his workers and the entrance workplace will put collectively the playoff roster after an everyday season that featured a traditionally good first half, adopted by a stretch wherein their lead within the AL East dropped from 15 ½ video games to three ½ video games.
However they ended up successful the division simply and Decide mentioned Wednesday the robust instances made them higher.
“You possibly can’t have the great with out the unhealthy,’’ Decide mentioned. “It's important to have a check to see what your workforce is product of. Are we gonna crumble or decide ourselves up and be higher for it? That’s what this workforce did. All it does is make you stronger.”
Aaron Boone assessed the common season and famous the Yankees had gained the AL East — one thing they hadn’t completed since 2019.
“That’s what we needed to do and there’s some satisfaction in that,’’ Boone mentioned. “However we need to win all of it and we’re targeted on that. Now we begin actually getting ready for that.”
That features placing collectively the rotation, determining who’s wholesome within the bullpen, with key relievers like Clay Holmes and Wandy Peralta unsure of their standing for the postseason as a result of numerous accidents.
After which there are gamers like Hicks, and Gonzalez, who've struggled on the plate all season — and with Hicks, at instances, defensively.
Neither is assured of a spot on the postseason roster, because the workforce waits on attainable comebacks by Matt Carpenter and Andrew Benintendi and with selections to make on Oswald Peraza and Tim Locastro.
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