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The New York Yankees clinched the AL East title on Thursday after a dominant 10-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles, placing the cherry on prime of what has been an excellent common season.
Whereas they nonetheless have the postseason forward of them, Aaron Decide admitted that he will have a good time the divisional title within the coming days.
“We’re gonna social gathering arduous, so I would take a day without work,” Decide stated after the win. “We’ll see.”
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If there is a member of this 12 months’s crew who deserves to social gathering, it is Decide. He leads the majors in dwelling runs with 58 and RBI with 144 and has the third-best batting common at .325. On Thursday, Decide prolonged his dwelling run streak to 5 video games as he nears his American League document of 62 dwelling runs with three video games to play.
However the crew captain was humble after clinching the divisional title, crediting his teammates for getting the Yankees up to now.
“It is every thing, you recognize. Nevertheless it’s simply the beginning,” he stated. “We have a particular group right here that is put a whole lot of arduous work in all the way in which from the offseason. To come back up to now and be capable of win this division, the hardest division in baseball, I am simply happy with this group that we have now. It is a particular group.”
Only a season in the past New York completed 82-80, its fewest wins in a full season since 1992. Now the Yankees seem like one in every of—if not the very best—crew in baseball and wish to carry their momentum into the postseason.
As a lot success as Decide has had in his profession, he is nonetheless in search of his first World Collection look. He is been part of a number of profitable Yankees groups, however this 12 months’s crew appears poised to be the group that snaps a 14-year World Collection drought.
Securing a bye within the playoffs is definitely a step in the fitting course.
