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Yankees clear first hurdle by getting past ALDS

Wallace Matthews

Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews

Matthews writes on professional sports, with a specialty in professional

Minneapolis -- For the Yankees, it wasn’t so much a victory as an exorcism.

A chance to finally get past what had become their October roadblock, the American League Division Series, and move to within striking distance of a return to the World Series.

A chance to justify an off-season in which nearly a half-billion dollars was spent on three players.

And a chance, finally, to...

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