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Yankees Ride Gerrit Cole and Homers to a Win Over the Guardians

The Yankees showed no rust after five days off, cruising to a relatively easy win at home over Cleveland.

Anthony Rizzo’s sixth-inning homer drove in Aaron Judge and provided two big insurance runs as the Yankees beat the Guardians in Game 1 of their division series on Tuesday.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

A day before the Yankees hosted the Guardians for Game 1 of their American League division series, Manager Aaron Boone described Gerrit Cole’s regular-season home run woes as a “bugaboo.”

But Cole, who allowed an A.