As predicted, the Yankees won two out of three against the Tigers in Detroit.
Now, they’ll head home to to face the newly rebranded Cleveland Guardians. There will be no intergalactic fighting featuring a wisecracking racoon or talking tree, just good old-fashioned baseball in the Bronx.
There’s a lot of history between both teams thanks to intense playoff matchups that go back over two decades. Every regular-season game has something of an October vibe, with the Yankees taking three out of four in Cleveland this time last year. Cleveland then took two out of three in New York in September, so it’s anybody’s series.