CLEVELAND — Gerrit Cole brought the New York Yankees back from the brink.
Now they’re bound for the Bronx again, still chasing a championship.
Cole gave his team what it needed in seven solid innings on the mound, and Harrison Bader hit a two-run homer as the Yankees forced a decisive fifth game in their American League Division Series with a 4-2 win over the Cleveland Guardians in Game 4 on Sunday night.
There was no margin for error, no second chances. Cole, who failed in a similar spot last October, had the weight of New York’s season, the one that Aaron Judge’s home-run swing has made historic, on his shoulders.
He handled it. Like an ace should.