(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
  Didi Gregorius celebrates 10,000th win and PO-clinch with NY Yankees
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 NEW YORK CITY, New York (USA) -
The New York Yankees wrote history on Thursday-evening (October 1) by winning its 10,000th Major League-game!
The Yankees won 4-1 at home vs. the Boston Red Sox in the last of four games against their rivals from the American League East Division.
With the win, which came in the last home game of the regular season, the Yankees also secured themselves of a spot in the postseason.
It marks the 52nd time that the Yankees will play in the postseason.
| 10,000 or more Wins, through Thursday, October 1 |
| Wins | Franchise | Games | Since |
| 10,863 | San Francisco Giants | 20,358 | 1883 |
| 10,605 | Chicago Cubs | 20,891 | 1876 |
| 10,578 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 20,277 | 1884 |
| 10,571 | St. Louis Cardinals | 20,482 | 1882 |
| 10,367 | Atlanta Braves | 20,859 | 1876 |
| 10,320 | Cincinnati Reds | 20,477 | 1882 |
| 10,239 | Pittsburgh Pirates | 20,437 | 1882 |
| 10,000 | New York Yankees | 17,655 | 1903 |
The Yankees will play in the American League Wild Card-game next Tuesday.
Their opponent will be either the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Houston currently holds the second Wild Card-spot, but the Twins and Angels are only one game behind the Astros with three games to go.
When the Yankees win one of their remaining three regular season-games, they secure that the game will be played at home in the Bronx.
The Yankees had lost its first three games againt the BoSox, but closed its home season with a win that accounted for a historic milestone in club-history.
The win was its 10,000th after the first win was registered in 1903 when the Yankees were known as the New York Highlanders.
The Yankees became the first American League-club to reach this mark.
In the National League, there are seven franchises who reached the 10,000 win mark.
The Yankees won their first-ever regular season-game also on a Thursday, which was April 23, 1903.
On that day, the New York Highlanders won 7-2 at Washington Senators, which in 1961 became the current Minnesota Twins.
The first home-win at Hilltop Park was registered on April 30, also vs. Washington, winning 6-2.
Playing in steady rain on Thursdat-evening, the Yankees took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on a homerun by Carlos Beltran and a single by Brendan Ryan.
Boston got a run back in the top of the fifth via a single by Mookie Betts, but the Yankees added an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh when Greg Bird homered.
New York added another run in the bottom of the eighth inning when rookie Rob Refsnyder led off with his second homerun of the season.
Refsnyder was born as Jung-tae Kim in Seoul, Korea, but was adopted by a couple from California when he was five months old.
He made his Major League-debut on July 11 of this year and he also had hit his first homerun against the Red Sox, in Fenway Park.
Amsterdam-born Didi Gregorius was the short stop again for the Yankees.
He was 1-for-2 with a walk, a strikeout and a stolen base.
Gregorius closed the top of the eighth inning with a nice catch of a line drive by Allen Craig.
(October 1)
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