{"id":3878,"date":"2025-05-05T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:22:12","slug":"yanks-hold-on-in-extras-to-stay-alive-in-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Yanks Hold On in Extras to Stay Alive in Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WilliamsBernieNYY98.jpg?resize=171%2C271&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WilliamsBernieNYY98.jpg?w=171&amp;ssl=1 171w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WilliamsBernieNYY98.jpg?resize=81%2C128&amp;ssl=1 81w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WilliamsBernieNYY98.jpg?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez allowed 3 runs on 4 straight hits in the 1st inning against the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, but the 1998 New York Yankees were able to bounce back, eventually winning 7-6 in 11 innings to avoid a sweep and keep their tournament hopes alive. Bernie Williams led off the 2nd with a home run against Dave Stewart. After Tino Martinez walked, Darryl Strawberry tied the game with another homer. The Yankees added 3 more runs in the 3rd, thanks to a 2-out 2-run double by Jorge Posada. New York bats went quiet after that, allowing the Jays to get back in the game. Ed Sprague hit a 2-run shot in the 7th to tie the game. Hideki Irabu made up for a Game 1 relief loss, allowing just one hit in 3 1\/3 innings of relief. Williams hit his 2nd homer of the game in the 11th, and Mariano Rivera pitched a scoreless inning to give the Yankees the win and pick up his 5th save. The Yankees made 3 more errors, for a total of 10 in the series. New York hitters also grounded into 4 double plays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB90s\/Scoresheets\/09-25-2024_NYY_TOR.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'98 Yankees @ '93 Blue Jays - 9\/25\/24\">&#8217;98 Yankees @ &#8217;93 Blue Jays &#8211; 9\/25\/24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez allowed 3 runs on 4 straight hits in the 1st inning against the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, but the 1998 New York Yankees were able to bounce back, eventually winning 7-6 in 11 innings to avoid a sweep and keep their tournament hopes alive. Bernie Williams led off the 2nd with a home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-90s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}