NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Yankees are trying to become just the 10th team in Major League Baseball history to come back from an 0-2 deficit to win a best-of-five postseason series.
The Bronx Bombers, in fact, have been on both sides of such comebacks before, the victims in 1995 and the victors in 2001.
Here is a look at all nine times that teams pulled off the improbable feat:
1981 NLDS, Dodgers Over Astros
The Astros benefited from strong pitching performances by Nolan Ryan and Joe Niekro to win the first two games, but they didn’t have the offense to keep it going, scoring just two runs over the final three games to a Dodgers team that featured Steve Garvey and rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela.