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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge both homer to lead Yankees to win over Guardians in Game 5 of AL Division Series — They always knew they would end up there. Tuesday night, Nestor Cortes, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge punched that ticket back to Houston.
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Yankees Notebook: Nestor Cortes continues year of firsts — It's been a year of firsts for Yankees' lefty Nestor Cortes. He made his first All-Star team. He crossed the 100-inning threshold for the first time, then 125, then 150 before ending the regular season with 158.1 star-making innings.
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Pete Caldera / USA Today:
Aaron Judge, Yankees not living in past, know they ‘got to go through’ Astros to win AL — NEW YORK - Standing near pools of spilled champagne in a deafening postgame celebration, Aaron Judge outlined what had always been the Yankees' October travelogue. — “You've kind of got …
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Joon Lee / ESPN:
Yankees eliminate Guardians to set up ALCS showdown vs. Astros — NEW YORK — Houston, here come the Yankees. — Riding off a strong start from lefty Nestor Cortes, the New York Yankees booked a ticket to the American League Championship Series with a 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday.
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Abbey Mastracco / New York Daily News:
ALDS Game 5 rescheduled for Tuesday, fans sit in rain for nearly three hours in ‘terribly handled’ delay — Fans were forced to wait out a rain delay of nearly three hours just to head home soaking wet when Game 5 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Cleveland Guardians was postponed Monday night.
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Yankees confirm Nestor Cortes will start rescheduled Game 5 on short rest, Guardians starter TBD — Prior to the scheduled Game 5 of the ALDS on Monday night, Jameson Taillon's last start was so long ago that Aroldis Chapman was still on the Yankees' roster.
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Mercury News, New York Post and Sports Illustrated
Koji Ueda / Associated Press:
Ohtani had ‘good’ season; less glowing about Angels results — Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani arrived home on Tuesday and was critical of his Los Angeles Angels team missing the Major League Baseball playoffs again. In an interview at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, he said it was “a good season for me personally.”
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
‘Huge swing:’ Kyle Schwarber's majestic home run lifts Phillies over Padres in Game 1 of NLCS — SAN DIEGO - No one had ever seen anything like it. — Kyle Schwarber launched a monster home run at Petco Park never seen before. — It was a moment that could be talked about forever …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
High-priced, coveted free agents from 2019 - Bryce Harper and Manny Machado - square off in NLCS — SAN DIEGO — The Philadelphia Phillies and San Diego Padres were at each other's throats, making each other's lives miserable, desperately wanting the other to go away.
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MLB - The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, MLB Baseball News … and Padres
Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Padres eliminate Dodgers, advance to NLCS for 1st time since 1998
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Padres, NBCSports.com and New Jersey Online
Gerry Dulac / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mitch Trubisky has a chance to force Steelers into difficult decision — Mike Tomlin doesn't have a quarterback debate on his hands — not yet. But he might in another week, and it all depends on the player who was abruptly benched two weeks ago after a halftime locker room incident.
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John W. Davis / Press Telegram:
Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week: Ryan Pellum, Millikan — Pellum had three touchdowns in Millikan's 50-20 win vs. Compton last week — PRESS-TELEGRAM BOYS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK — Noteworthy: Pellum had a big game that included a 79-yard touchdown catch in Millikan's 50-20 win at home against Compton on Friday, Oct. 14.
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Stefan Bondy / New York Daily News:
Lots of intrigue as Knicks start Year 3 under Tom Thibodeau — MEMPHIS — Year 1 of the Tom Thibodeau experience was rainbows and unicorns. — Year 2 was like the Saturday Night Fever sequel. — Year 3 is the inflection point of this particular Knicks chapter.
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Associated Press:
San Pedro man found guilty in 1996 murder of Kristin Smart; his father acquitted — The last man seen with Kristin Smart was convicted Tuesday, Oct. 18, of killing the college freshman who vanished from a California campus more than 25 years ago, while his father was acquitted of helping him conceal the crime.
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San Bernardino Sun, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and New York Post
