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Article snippet: Greg Bird has long carried himself with a poise that belies his years. His high school teammates joked that he was 16 going on 40, asking him when he arrived for early-morning practices if he had already had his morning coffee and checked his stock portfolio. So, as frustrated as Bird may have been when his progress was derailed by injuries for a second straight season, he remained patient, believing that with the Yankees headed toward the playoffs, he had an opportunity to salvage his season. On Sunday night, Bird salvaged the Yankees’ season — at least for a day — by blasting a seventh-inning homer off the redoubtable reliever Andrew Miller to lift the Yankees to a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 3 of their American League division series. The victory, in front of an energetic, sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium, sliced the Indians’ advantage in the series to two games to one. Game 4 is set for Monday night in the Bronx, with Trevor Bauer facing the Yankees’ Luis Severino. Bird’s home run, off a 1-1 elevated fastball from Miller, landed in the second deck in right field, puncturing a game dominated by the starting pitchers: the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka and the Indians’ Carlos Carrasco. It was only the second home run that Miller, the usually dominant ex-Yankee, had surrendered to a left-handed hitter all season. Still, despite the heroics of Bird and Tanaka, who shut out the Indians on three hits over seven innings, and effective pitching from Arold... Link to the full article to read more