In what seemed like an instant, the Yankees snatched Rodriguez from the Red Sox, who failed to trade for him weeks earlier.

So the Yankees snatched the last two games of what could have been a much more frustrating five-game series against a team they might meet in the post-season.

Instead, the Yankees snatched the lead right back and took the crowd out of the game in the process.

The Yankees snatched a four-game series in Cleveland for the first time since 1964, two years before Williams was born.

That took him and the Yankees to the seventh, by which time the Yankees had snatched the lead.

But first, the Yankees must snatch the wild card out of the deck over the season's final three weeks.

The Yankees have been snatching from the Red Sox for decades.

Still, if the Yankees snatch one more victory, it will not matter.

Hoffman had the lead, and the Yankees rudely but determinedly snatched it out of the right hand that has been so golden this year.

If the Yankees had snatched the lead before the game was delayed, they would have received the victory.