MINNEAPOLIS — Aaron Hicks made the biggest catch of the Yankees’ season — a full-extension diving grab at the warning track with the tying and winning runs on base Tuesday night — in one of baseball’s most exhilarating games of the season.
Hicks’s jaw-dropping play ended what felt like a heavyweight battle between the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins, two of the best teams in the game. Two high-powered offenses had landed many blows on the opposing pitching staffs and kept punching. Every out felt like a gigantic task. Every base runner added more chaos. There were five lead changes, 26 runs and four blown saves.
Then, with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning, the Twins’ power-hitting center fielder, Max Kepler, laced a 97-mile-an-hour fastball from Chad Green deep into the left-center-field gap. But Hicks galloped back, dived to his left, caught the ball with his outstretched left hand and slammed face-first onto the warning track.
Yankees Win the Game of the Year
