CLEVELAND (WFAN) — Win or lose, this is a big day for this group of Yankees. What they’ve done just to get here is something they will look back on years from now.
Hopefully for them it’s not the same painful jump-start the ’90s dynasty got when they lost Game 5 to the Mariners in 1995. That game has long been remembered as the one that showed a still wet-behind-the-ears Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte that losing wasn’t a feeling they wanted to get used to. It showed a young Bernie Williams that he didn’t want to feel the way his captain, Don Mattingly, felt on the long plane ride home from Seattle.