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Yankees.com: Given 1-in-500 chance to win, Yanks walk off

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One of Reggie Jackson’s favorite sayings, dispensed annually to prospects during the Yankees’ spring camps, is that “as long as you have a bat in your hands, you can rewrite the story.” File this one away as Mr. October’s Exhibit A for why players must keep swinging.

Down to their final strike, Aaron Hicks capped a five-run seventh inning with a game-tying home run and Gio Urshela delivered a walk-off single in the eighth, lifting the Yankees to a remarkable 8-7 victory over the Mets in the first game of Sunday’s Subway Series seven-inning doubleheader at Yankee Stadium.