The New York Yankees, Major League Baseball's (MLB) most prestigious team, are back in the World Series (WS) for the first time in 15 years.
The Yankees defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 5-2 in Game 5 of the best-of-seven MLB American League Championship Series (ALCS) on Tuesday (May 20) at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, behind Juan Soto's three-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning.
The Yankees, who won the ALCS 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, will try to win their 28th World Series title on June 26.
The Yankees are the all-time World Series champions, having won 27 titles, but 2009 was their last World Series title.
After a 15-year absence from the World Series, the Yankees will face the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets, who will continue their rivalry in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).
The last time the Yankees and Mets met in the World Series as New York teams was in 2000, 카지노사이트 and the last time the top-grossing Yankees-Dodgers World Series matchup was in 1981.
The Yankees, a “star-studded” team, broke the game open with two home runs and paved the way to the World Series.
Trailing 0-2, the Yankees tied the game in the sixth inning on Stanton's long ball, his fifth two-run shot of the fall.
From there, both teams went scoreless until an error changed the course of the game.
In the top of the 10th inning of extra innings with the score tied at 2-2, Alex Verdugo hit a grounder to first base that Cleveland second baseman Andres Jimenez made an error while attempting to make the play.
With the bases loaded, the Yankees rallied to take the lead after Glavier Torres grounded into a double play, but Soto came through with a home run two batters later.
Working a one-pitch, two-strike count, Soto took advantage of a high pitch from Cleveland pitcher Hunter Gaddis that was intended to induce a wild swing and launched it over the right-center field fence.
Seeing that the ball had cleared the fence, Soto celebrated and congratulated his teammates in the dugout, and the Yankees celebrated their first World Series appearance in 15 years.