Yankees hang on for much-needed win over Cardinals to get some breathing space in wild-card race
NY Post
ST. LOUIS — Roughly two hours before first pitch Friday, Brian Cashman laid out a simple task for his scuffling club over the final quarter of the season.
“We just need to win,” the general manager said. “We’ve got to win tonight’s game and keep it simple, one game at a time, but then string together win after win after win to get to where we want to go.”
For one night at least, that was accomplished, though the Yankees did not make it easy on themselves.
The stringing together part is what has largely escaped the Yankees over the past two-plus months, but they have to start somewhere, and they gave themselves another chance Friday.
The Yankees raced out to an early lead, and Luis Gil and the bullpen made sure it just barely stood up in a 4-3 win over the Cardinals at a steamy Busch Stadium.
“We’re going to keep on going,” said Jazz Chisholm Jr., who clubbed a two-run homer in the first inning and scored another run in the third. “We got to keep the tempo up. We got to keep on stepping on them. We can’t let up. We can’t play down to nobody. We got to keep going because we got to make the playoffs and win the World Series.”
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