{"id":179238,"date":"2025-09-24T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179238\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:47:12","slug":"yankees-still-focused-on-winning-the-al-east-after-clinching-postseason-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179238\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees still focused on winning the AL East after clinching postseason berth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yankees still focused on winning the AL East after clinching postseason berth<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Yankees clinched another trip to the postseason after their dramatic 3-2 walk-off victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday. Despite that, the Yankees aren\u2019t settling for less.<\/p>\n

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At 89-68, the Yankees have clinched a playoff spot. However, the AL East division crown is still up for grabs. The Yankees currently sit just one game behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays for the division lead, giving the Yankees more motivation to keep their foot on the gas for the final five games of the season.<\/p>\n

Yankees remain keen on winning the AL East<\/p>\n

Following the emphatic win, many players spoke with The Athletic\u2019s Chris Kirschner<\/a> about the team\u2019s goal going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always great to play October baseball, but it means even more to go to the World Series,\u201d infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. \u201cRight now, this is just the first step. We\u2019re going to keep on going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis October, we\u2019re coming to prove a point,\u201d Chisholm Jr. added.<\/p>\n

Outfielder Aaron Judge also said that the Yankees\u2019 are still aiming to secure the division title.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ultimate goal is to win the division,\u201d Judge said. \u201cIt\u2019s still right there for us. We\u2019re excited about getting in, but we got bigger things ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yankees will look to right the ship in October this season after a disappointing showing in last year\u2019s World Series. The Yankees lost in five games to the Los Angeles Dodgers last year, and they\u2019ll look to not only make it back to the World Series, but finish the job this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees still focused on winning the AL East after clinching postseason berth originally appeared on The Sporting News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,2318,106389,10656,363,369,99,59462,364],"class_list":["post-179238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-division-crown","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-the-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}