Yankees will need many more mentally tough wins like this
NY Post
Beyond everything else that was wrong with the Yankees over 15 games from hell, from their wayward hacks to their joyless disposition, they came across as mentally soft. Fragile. Lacking the stomach for the fight.
They seemed to be everything their dynastic forebears were not, at least until Tuesday night, when the Yankees did to the Braves what the Yankees of the Nineties always did to them. They pressed them across a tight and tense game, toughened their at-bats as the game wore on, unleashed a lights-out bullpen and waited for the Braves to make the fatal mistake. Nate Jones’ wild pitch with the score tied and the bases loaded in the eighth wasn’t exactly Mark Wohlers’ hanging slider to Jim Leyritz in Game 4 of the 1996 World Series, but hey, after what these Yanks have endured in April, it felt close enough. It’s quite possible that no modern-day New York baseball team has ever needed a victory on April 20 as much as the home team needed this one in The Bronx.
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