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Article snippet: CLEVELAND — When the Yankees left here five days ago, they were devastated. They boarded a plane for New York on the brink of elimination with their manager, Joe Girardi, under siege for a tactical blunder that set the stage for an excruciating 13-inning defeat and a daunting deficit in this series. When the Yankees departed here in the wee hours of Thursday morning, they did so only after they had washed the Champagne out of their hair — and they were feeling sky-high long before they got to the airport. Behind two home runs from their reluctant slugger, Didi Gregorius; a lockdown performance from reliever David Robertson; and an epic late at-bat from Brett Gardner, the Yankees capped a resounding comeback in this American League division series Wednesday night with a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The final out came when Aroldis Chapman froze Austin Jackson with a letter-high fastball before throwing his arms up in the air as his Yankees teammates raced out of the dugout. As the Yankees celebrated their three-game-to-two series win, Jackson walked disconsolately back toward the third-base dugout in a second consecutive crushing end to a season for the Indians, who have not won a World Series since 1948, the longest drought in baseball. A year after losing a three-games-to-one lead to the Chicago Cubs in the World Series, the Indians lost three straight to the Yankees — and, just like last season, the final defeat came at their own ballpark. The Yankees... Link to the full article to read more