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What you need to know from the MLB playoffs: Yankees await Tigers or Guardians

A squeeze play sent one American League Division Series to Game 5, as Cleveland’s David Fry hit a pinch hit homer and then bunted home the winning run in the Guardians’ come-from-behind road win over the Detroit Tigers. Meanwhile, benches cleared in an otherwise quiet evening in Kansas City, Mo., where the New York Yankees defeated the Royals to advance to the ALCS. Let’s go around the horn.

The Yankees jumped ahead two batters into the game, then tacked on single runs in the fifth and sixth. That’s when the brouhaha began.