NEW YORK — With Aaron Judge in the building, there’s always a chance for fireworks.
Yet little about the New York Yankees’ performance through six-plus innings of a 6-2 victory on Tuesday could be described as explosive. The hosts, up 4-2 on the Cleveland Guardians in the seventh inning of ALCS Game 2, were playing well enough to win yet poorly enough to worry the 47,054 souls huddled together on a brisk night in the Bronx.
Ace pitcher Gerrit Cole was duller than a bad documentary, walking four batters across 4 1/3 burdensome innings.