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The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the Bronx, New York. They compete in the East Division of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) American League (AL). The club began play in 1903 as the Highlanders, after owners Frank Farrell and William S. Devery had bought the defunct Baltimore Orioles and moved the team to New York ...
The Yankees have played home games in the current Yankee Stadium since 2009. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Also known as "the Bronx Bombers" and "the Pinstripers", [1] [2] the Yankees play in the East Division of Major League Baseball's (MLB) American League (AL).
The Yankees also hold the record for most wins by a pennant-winning team, with their 1998 team winning 114 out of 162 games, [16] finishing 22 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. [17] The 1954 Cleveland Indians won the most games of any pennant winner under the pre-1969 system, winning 111 out of their 154 games [ 18 ] and finishing eight games ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The National League’s 1916 New York Giants hold the record of winning 26 consecutive games. The longest American League winning streak is 22, by the 2017 Cleveland Indians . The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all ...
Halfway through their season, the 2022 Yankees are on pace for a record-tying 116 wins. Why the Yankees are winning at a historic rate: 5 players, stats and trends that explain MLB's best team ...
Year Winner Record % Playoff Results Original Format 1995: New York Yankees: 79–65 .549 Lost ALDS 3–2 1996: Baltimore Orioles: 88–74 .543 Won ALDS 3–1 Lost ALCS 4–1 1997: New York Yankees: 96–66 .593 Lost ALDS 3–2 1998: Boston Red Sox: 92–70 .568 Lost ALDS 3–1 1999: Boston Red Sox: 94–68 .580
The 2018 season was the first time either league had more than two teams win 100 or more games in the same season; the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and New York Yankees of the American League each won 100 or more games, with two led by rookie managers (no season had ever seen more than 100 wins from two managers before).