Did Yankee Stadium play host to another notable milestone on Wednesday night?
The best career 100th home run ever?
Who can even remember when others reached such a modest round number? Coming off the veteran bat of Brett Gardner, though, amidst baseball’s greatest rivalry, it couldn’t have felt much more grandiose.
“Yeah, it was a big feeling,” Gardner acknowledged after No. 100, a seventh-inning grand slam off Boston’s Ryan Brasier, catapulted the Yankees to a 5-3 victory over — and a series sweep of — the defending champions.
“Hoo, that was big,” Aaron Boone echoed.