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Boosted by three home runs and some gutsy relief work, the Yankees are one win away from the World Series after an 8-6 win in ALCS Game 4.
The Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers first met in the 1941 World Series. In Game 4, with the Yankees leading the series two games to one, the Dodgers led by one going to the top of the ninth inning and, with two outs, just barely missed getting the third out and wound up losing the game.
Tommy Edman home run gives Dodgers 1-0 lead. Leading off the bottom of the second, Tommy Edman hit a solo home run off Yankees starter Carlos Rodón to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead in Game 2.
The Yankees scored two runs in the ninth to defeat the Guardians, 8-6, in ALCS Game 4 and now hold a 3-1 lead in the series.
On a cool, mid-October night at Yankee Stadium, it was Luke Weaver who delivered a five-out save to seal the Yankees' 5-2 win in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series to decide the AL pennant.
This was the third postseason meeting between the Yankees and the Tigers, but the first in the ALCS. The Tigers previously beat the Yankees in the 2006 ALDS (3–1) and the 2011 ALDS (3–2). The last appearance for each team in the ALCS resulted in a loss to the Texas Rangers; the Yankees in the 2010 ALCS and the Tigers in the 2011 ALCS.
When the series shifted to Cleveland for Game 3, the Yankees held a 5–3 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, until the Guardians rallied with three runs to win and go up 2–1 in the series. The Yankees won Game 4 by a 4–2 score to avoid elimination and then closed out the series with a 5–1 victory in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium.
The Game 3 winner was summoned on a day's rest and set down the bottom of the Yankees' order to close it out – the eighth pitcher to work on this night the Dodgers became champions once again.