The Yankees and Mariners conclude their three-game series on Thursday in Seattle.
Yankees reliever Clay Holmes hung an eighth-inning slider on Wednesday night that the Mariners' Justin Turner clobbered for a game-tying home run.over the Mariners, they had to survive another blown save from Holmes, who served up a game-tying homer to Justin Turner in the eighth inning.
Holmes was removed right after the homer. Weaver came and got the last two outs of the eighth, then worked a scoreless ninth., then Ian Hamilton pitched a scoreless inning to save a win for Weaver, put the Yankees in the playoffs and build a five-game AL East lead on the second-place Orioles with 10 to play.
There have a lot ... so many that Holmes lost his closer job after his epic blown save in Arlington, Texas on Sept. 3.
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