It's the second time in the past eight days that the Yankees have celebrated by popping open champagne bottles, this time on Thursday night after a 10-1 win over the Orioles, when they held a party in the clubhouse to celebrate their AL East championship. It was written.
The Yankees won their second division title in three years with the win over Baltimore, but unlike last week, when their victory and playoff berth celebration on September 18th took place on the road, they won their first division title in the Bronx. there was.
So, in a familiar backdrop, the Yankees used the box to pop bottle after bottle. It was thrown into a trash can in the hallway below Yankee Stadium. — Champagne and Budweiser.
At one point during the celebration, Juan Soto and Gleyber Torres, who were celebrating winning a division title in their first, and perhaps only, season with the Yankees, jumped next to each other and had foam poured over their heads.
In another video shared by the team, manager Aaron Boone appears to say, “Fuck it,” before bottles are broken and Yankees players wearing goggles spray each other.
Aaron Judge, who hit his 58th home run of the season during the win, smiled on the field and told MLB Network, “I might take a day off because I'm going to party hard.” “Let's take a look.”
Afterwards, the Yankees posed for a team photo wearing T-shirts that read “We own the East” while the scoreboard behind them reflected that they were actually AL East champions. took the celebration back to the field.
In 2022, the Yankees narrowly held off the onslaught of the Rays in the final stages of the season and won the AL East Division, but they failed to fully advance to the postseason last year.
But they got off to another strong start in 2022, overcoming a mid-season lull and entering the final weekend of the season with a chance to earn the AL's top seed.
The Yankees begin a three-game series against the Pirates starting Friday, and the magic number to achieve that best record is “2.''
