CLEVELAND (AP) — There were quality at-bats. There was energy. There was urgency.
For one of the first times in this young season, the New York Yankees played up to their payroll.
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“Tonight we showed what we are,” shortstop Gleyber Torres said after the Yankees shook off a rough first inning and rallied for a 6-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.
Rougned Odor’s two-out, two-run single broke a seventh-inning tie — and maybe jarred New York from its hitting funk — as the Yankees won for the second time in eight games and at least temporarily eased concerns of their passionate fans.