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Best New York Yankees’ games from the 2016 season

5. Didi and Castro stage a comeback

Although this game started with Brett Gardner being thrown out attempting an inside-the-park home run, the Yankees still found a way to grind out the victory against their cross-town rivals.

With the New York Mets displaying their power, the Yankees found themselves down two runs in the top of eighth — but they were far from out of it.



Didi Gregorius quickly erased the deficit with a two-run single and the Yankees found themselves claiming victory after Starlin Castro‘s game-winning sacrifice fly.

Winning an extra-inning game on the road? Difficult. Winning an extra-inning game on the road against your cross-town rivals? Priceless.

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Allison is just a girl with an enormous passion for the game of baseball and the written word. Based in Upstate New York, her life-long relationship with the New York Yankees is something that she developed through close relationships with her mother and grandfather. An aspiring sports writer, she graduated with a journalism degree and is finding places to share her excitement about the sporting world and how it affects us all.