The Yankees made it through their recent 12-game gauntlet relatively unscathed, leading them into a final stretch of four series where they have an opportunity to make an eleventh hour push to try and win the division. They checked their first box in taking two out of three from the Twins, though the series win was far more tense than it needed to be, first getting shut out in the opener before almost squandering a 10-1 lead in the middle game. We return to the final hitter of that 10-9 victory for our Sequence of the Week.
Royce Lewis digs in with two outs and the bases empty in the bottom of the ninth. The Yankees are clinging to a 10-9 lead after Cam Schlittler fell apart in the fifth and Ryan Yarbrough melted down in the sixth. Even closer David Bednar hit a speed bump in the ninth, s