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The big league landscape is populated by a number of teams that are considered challenged in the slugging department, for which a five-run deficit would offer the temptation to call it an early evening. Not so for the Yankees, who viewed the early hole as an invitation to flex their muscle.
Gary Sanchez completed the comeback with a mammoth game-tying blast in the eighth and Giancarlo Stanton celebrated his first signature moment in pinstripes with a walk-off shot in the ninth, enveloped by his teammates at home plate as they celebrated a memorable 7-5 victory over the Mariners on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.