Nine minutes after midnight in The Bronx, as the tubs of empty champagne bottles were being wheeled out of the visitors’ clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, a familiar voice began serenading the room.
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It wasn’t the first time Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” had come on to the Red Sox’ celebration playlist. They just might have played it all the way back to Boston.
After Aaron Judge played the song on a speaker as he walked by the home clubhouse at Fenway Park on Saturday night, going back to New York with the ALDS tied 1-1, the Red Sox made sure that version never played again at Yankee Stadium.