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Yankees Use a Passed Ball, Not a Long Ball, to Win Again in Ninth

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By MATHEW BROWNSTEIN

For an encore, the Yankees did it again — a walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers in the bottom of the ninth inning. Except this one, on Thursday afternoon, was hardly as dramatic, with the Yankees scoring the winning run on a passed ball less than 24 hours later after they triumphed on Wednesday night on a two-run home run by Didi Gregorius.