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Brett Gardner keeps validating Yankees’ lineup decision

MINNEAPOLIS — Brett Gardner hit a career-high 28 homers during the regular season and hit so well throughout the year he’s been in the three-hole for the entire ALDS.

In Monday’s 5-1 series-clinching Game 3 win over the Twins, Gardner delivered another RBI, but this one came in more typical Gardner fashion.

With the Yankees leading 1-0, Gio Urshela led off the third with a double to left-center, where Jake Cave made an ill-conceived and poorly executed diving attempt. Urshela wound up at second and moved to third on a grounder to short by DJ LeMahieu.