Written by John Harper at NY Daily News.com
When it was over and Team Comeback had pulled off its most death-defying feat yet in this thrill-ride of a postseason, you walked away thinking not so much about the clutch hits from Aaron Judge or Gary Sanchez, or even Chase Headley’s desperate crawl into second base.
No, you walked away thinking about what Yankee Stadium felt like on this night. What it sounded like.
I’ve never seen it so bonkers, to the point where it felt a lot like the old place across the street that all of New York speaks of with such reverence now.
Maybe it was like this at some point in October 2009, the first year for the new place when the Yankees won a championship, but I don’t remember a night when everyone in the clubhouse was talking about it the way they were after coming back late from down 4-0 to essentially save the season.
“You can’t hear anything,’’ Judge said in describing what he felt. “You’re trying to talk to the person next to you, but it’s deafening. It’s crazy.”
Perhaps Yankee fans had to experience a few empty Octobers to bring back the passion. Of course, after watching expensive, aging players underachieve in recent years, they also seemed to be just waiting to fall in love with a group like these Baby Bombers.
Whatever the factors, Joe Girardi likened it to the glory days of the late ’90s. “I see things that I haven’t seen in a while and it reminds me a lot of when I was playing here,” Girardi said. “I just feel like the fans are back.”
Apparently, those old ghosts, the ones that Derek Jeter once famously told Aaron Boone would show up at just the right time in the building across the street, are back as well.
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