By RONALD BLUM<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 For the New York Yankees, clinching their 34th consecutive winning season was a milepost rather than a milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re the Yankees, and we\u2019re going to win,\u201d captain Aaron Judge said after New York beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3<\/a> on Tuesday night for its 82nd victory. \u201cSo that\u2019s a great streak, but I think everybody in this room is worried about a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n New York\u2019s streak is the second-longest in the four major U.S. professional sports leagues behind the Yankees\u2019 record 39 winning seasons in a row from 1926-64. The team\u2019s last losing record was 76-86 in 1992.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a good look at what this organization has been now for decades,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cI\u2019m happy we got there again but, yeah, obviously we\u2019ve got bigger things we\u2019re chasing.\u201d<\/p>\n New York hasn\u2019t won the World Series since its 27th title in 2009. Boone thought back to 2023, when the Yankees didn\u2019t get their 82nd win until the next-to-last day of the season<\/a> and at 82-80<\/a> finished seven games back of the final AL wild card.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not as easy I think as sometimes people think. In \u201923, it was a fight to get to that point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n New York (82-62) matched its season high of 20 games over .500 and is four games behind AL East-leading Tampa Bay with 18 remaining. The Yankees opened a three-game lead over Boston (80-65) for the top American League wild card and hold the tiebreaker after winning the season series.<\/p>\n