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“#Yankees’ gutsy win over Royals can be one that truly matters<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you look for signs. You look for omens. You look for harbingers. And sometimes they mean nothing. Maybe in a few months\u2019 time this 8-6, 11-inning, close-to-five-hours victory the Yankees pulled out over the Royals on Monday night in Kansas City will fade to a blur, and be remembered as just another in the 162-game<\/a> parade.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019ll mean a little something more than that.<\/p>\n

At 1:04 a.m. Eastern Time, Wandy Peralta coaxed Carlos Santana to bounce one to third base. Rougned Odor flipped it over to Luke Voit at first. And the Yankees had a most satisfying victory on a most unusual night.<\/p>\n

Say what you will about the ghost-runner extra-inning rule \u2014 which, with any luck at all, is entering its final two months of existence. But this sure was a fun, crazy, hard-to-believe, impossible-to-forget tug of war, assisted by, but not exclusively beholden to, those four free runners the Yankees and Royals received in the 10th and 11th (all of whom scored, by the way).<\/p>\n

The Yankees won the game despite being the first team since the 1995 Astros to collect four blown saves in the same game. The Yankees won the game despite being the first team in the modern era \u2014 that would be the 121 years since 1900, for those keeping score at home \u2014 to blow leads in the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th innings.<\/p>\n

This was actually a wonderful pitchers\u2019 duel for most of the night, Jameson Taillon and Carlos Hernandez matching zeroes for six innings. It was a tight, quick game \u2014 until it wasn\u2019t. It was a routine game \u2014 until it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Wandy Peralta and Kyle Higashioka celebrate the Yankees\u2019 wild 11-inning win over the Royals.<\/figcaption>
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The Yankees looked bound to lose the game.<\/p>\n

Except they didn\u2019t. Remember this one. Circle it. Highlight it in yellow. You may want to remember it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people did stuff tonight,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cOn a scorching-hot night they kept coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a night preceded by an afternoon in which the Yankees lost another player \u2014 Gleyber Torres landing on the injured list with a sprained thumb \u2014 and learned that another, Gio Urshela, wouldn\u2019t be returning from a balky hamstring as quickly as they\u2019d hoped, kept behind in New York for more rehab.<\/p>\n

They keep losing players and winning games.<\/p>\n

It may not be the ideal formula. But it works.<\/p>\n