CLEVELAND — Rajai Davis may be long gone, but for Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, the ghost of Davis was present and accounted for here Saturday night.
In Chapman’s first appearance at Progressive Field since last November — when he was here with the Chicago Cubs and gave up a game-tying, eighth-inning home run to Davis in Game 7 of the World Series — he had some more late-game jitters against the Cleveland Indians.
This time, though, Chapman had some help, mostly from left fielder Brett Gardner, who helped preserve a 2-1 victory with a leaping catch at the wall that robbed Jose Ramirez of perhaps a game-tying extra-base hit.