""It was one of those things - it wasn't easy,""
""We know that. It was kind of what we felt it we could get that first win in Game 3, any way, anyhow, we had an opportunity.""
""Greg Bird hit that home run in the seventh inning to go up 1-0,""
""I had a perfect view of it. I was the on-deck batter. And we ended up winning that game and took care of business Game 4.""
Toronto holds a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five AL Division Series after outscoring the Yankees 23-8 in the first two games. Historically, teams up 2-0 in a best-of-five advance 80 of 90 times, and teams that win the first two ALDS games at home have won 31 of 34 series. The last team to lose a five-game series after winning the first two was Cleveland in the 2017 ALDS; the Yankees rallied from 0-2 in that series, with Masahiro Tanaka, Luis Severino and CC Sabathia lined up for the final three games. In Game 3 of 2017, Greg Bird’s seventh-inning homer produced a 1-0 win, and the Yankees then scored early in Game 4 to complete the comeback.
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