Juan Soto smashed a three-run home run in the 10th inning on Saturday that lifted the New York Yankees over Cleveland 5-2 and into their first World Series since 2009.

The 25-year-old Dominican outfielder crushed a fastball from Cleveland pitcher Hunter Gaddis over the centerfield wall to score the deciding runs in a thriller that sent the Yankees into their record 41st World Series overall.

Earlier on, Giancarlo Stanton had hit a two-run homer in the sixth to level the match at 2-2.

“It’s the best feeling in the game whenever you win and take your team to the World Series,” said Soto. “It’s the best feeling you can ever have. That’s what we play for.

“We did a really good job since day one. We’ve been working hard. Now we’re the best team in the American League.”

The Yankees will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

The Buffalo Bills won 23-20 against the New York Jets in Week 6 in a game which seemed to feature a little bit of everything.

The first half was explosive, with both teams piling up over 200 yards of total offense. Buffalo put up over 100 yards on the the ground and through the air before halftime.

Then, the second half hit. The game was a mistake-filled, sloppy rendition of football. In the end, the Bills and Jets combined for 22 accepted penalties for 204 yards.

Josh Allen did what Josh Allen does: he extended plays and continued to dazzle with his creativity. He scored a rushing touchdown, threw for two more, and then iced the game on a late third down rush.

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw for 294 yards, with two touchdowns and an interception in a back-and-forth encounter.

For the second straight week, Buffalo’s second-half adjustments on defense helped keep things under wraps against their opponent. New York piled up yards, but when it counted the most, the Bills defense locked down the Jets.

Buffalo moves to 4-2 and gains some valuable breathing room at the top of the AFC East standings.

The Guardians (formerly called the Indians) and Yankees have been around for a long time. Cleveland is a charter member of the American League, which was established in 1901, and the Yankees were born two years later.

In the 121 years during which both have been Major League franchises, they have met in the postseason six times: 1997, 1998, 2007, 2017, 2020 and 2022. In that span, the clubs have been pretty evenly matched, with New York winning 15 games and Cleveland winning 12. 

Prior to the advent of the Wild Card in 1994, both were in the AL East and therefore did not match up in the playoffs.

Including this year’s AL Championship Series, the seven meetings between the Guardians and Yankees are topped only by the 11 times the Yankees and Dodgers faced off in the playoffs as the most common postseason matchup in MLB history.