SPORTS: New York Yankees Win AL East (American League East Division) Championship

The New York Yankees had a record season this year winning the American League East Championship.

LINK: https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-win-american-league-division-series-2022

NEW YORK — Until the first cork was popped in Tuesday’s celebration, the Yankees refused to look too far ahead in their mission to raise a championship banner in the Bronx, conscious of the danger in underestimating an upstart Guardians roster. Yet a showdown with the Astros always lurked, a just reward for surviving this grueling American League Division Series.

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Related: New York Yankees Aaron Judge wins American League Home Run Record and 2022 Silver Slugger Award Winner.

LINK: https://www.mlb.com/news/silver-slugger-award-winners-2022

MLB.com 2022 Silver Slugger Award Winners

No surprise here, as Judge — who is an MVP finalist and won the Hank Aaron Award in the AL — set an AL record by hitting 62 home runs this season. Judge not only led the Majors in home runs, but he also paced all players in runs (133), RBIs (131), on-base percentage (.425), slugging percentage (.686), OPS (1.111), OPS+ (211) and total bases (391).

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SPORTS: Yankees Win AL Wildcard

LINK: https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/red-sox-beat-yankees-al-wild-card-advance-division-series/

Red Sox beat Yankees in AL wild card, advance to division series

BOSTON (AP) _ As the ball sailed over the center field fence, landing 427 feet from the plate in a horde of happy Red Sox fans, Xander Bogaerts turned to the Boston dugout to flex his muscles before resuming his home run trot.

And the Red Sox were ready.

Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning in the AL wild-card game to help the Red Sox beat New York 6-2 on Tuesday night.

Bogaerts also cut down Aaron Judge at the plate in the sixth as Boston advanced to the best-of-five AL Division Series against the Rays.

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LINK: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32543791/new-york-jets-hope-end-prime-misery-no-ifs-ands-butt-fumbles

New York Jets hope to end prime-time misery — no ifs, ands or butt fumbles

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A butt fumble and a butt wipe. Mangled ligaments. A ghost sighting. The return of a villain. Blowouts, lots of blowouts. Tears in the locker room. A regrettable Snapchat in the locker room. An enemy celebration that went long and high into the night, with margaritas, lots of margaritas.

Get ready, America: The New York Jets are back in prime time, which usually means night terrors for the franchise with the NFL’s longest active playoff drought.

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