Any hopes of sweet payback, however, were squashed as the Yankees swept the series.
The Yankees once again swept the Rangers and held them to one run through three games.
The Angels and Yankees each swept their respective series in three games.
With that, the Yankees, 39-13 and winners of 8 of their last 11, swept the two-game series.
The Yankees later won the game in the 11th inning and swept the series.
The Yankees swept the doubleheader, the second game feeling like an extension of the first.
He faced them in the 1998 World Series, which the Yankees swept.
The Yankees swept the Twins here in the regular season in each of the last two years.
The Yankees swept the series to move into a tie with Boston.
The Yankees swept the four-game series with Baltimore and have won 10 of their last 11 games.