No, the Yankees won’t have home-field advantage in the ALCS, should they play the Astros, but the Yanks swept the Twins and therefore, will have at least one extra day off before the next series begins on Saturday.
Should the Rays and Diego Castillo pull out Game 4 versus Justin Verlander, who is on short rest, and force a Game 5 back in Houston on Thursday with Gerrit Cole, likely getting the start, the Bombers would be sitting pretty.
However, let’s not put the cart before the horse. Instead, let’s talk about what we know, and that is just how good the majority of Yankee players performed against the Twins.