{"id":2174,"date":"2016-10-02T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycsn.weavers-web.com\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2016-10-02T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:44:11","slug":"the-bronx-becomes-a-playoff-clinching-party-spot-just-not-for-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycsn\/the-bronx-becomes-a-playoff-clinching-party-spot-just-not-for-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bronx Becomes a Playoff-Clinching Party Spot, Just Not for the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"222\" data-para-count=\"222\">As soon as the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Boston Red Sox.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/sports\/baseball\/majorleague\/bostonredsox\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Red Sox<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>took a 3-0 lead in the top of the eighth inning Wednesday night, Lou Cucuzza Jr., the longtime manager of the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, put in the call to stadium operations. It was a go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"435\" data-para-count=\"213\">Within seconds, a crew of maintenance workers descended on the visiting clubhouse with rolls of plastic wrap, tape and staple guns, feverishly erecting a protective wrapper around the roughly 900-square-foot room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"888\" data-para-count=\"453\">But out on the field, the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the New York Yankees.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/sports\/baseball\/majorleague\/newyorkyankees\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Yankees<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>began a wild comeback in the bottom of the ninth inning, which Cucuzza watched carefully. If the Yankees won \u2014 as they did \u2014 and if the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Baltimore Orioles.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/sports\/baseball\/majorleague\/baltimoreorioles\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox would not clinch the American League East title. Cucuzza and the maintenance crew would have had to tear down the work they had just completed in only a few minutes, before the losing players returned to the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"1069\" data-para-count=\"181\">\u201cI had my phone, and I was also watching the score in Toronto,\u201d Cucuzza said. \u201cIt was close, but when I saw the Orioles scored in the ninth, I just said to leave it all up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"1277\" data-para-count=\"208\">When the Orioles won on Wednesday, the Red Sox clinched the division and were able to celebrate. Now it could be the Orioles\u2019 turn, leaving Cucuzza and his crew to arrange and clean up a second celebration.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"1554\" data-para-count=\"277\">The Orioles, who lost to the Yankees, 7-3, on Saturday, could clinch a wild-card berth on Sunday, which would result in Yankee Stadium having hosted two Champagne-and-beer celebrations in less than a week, neither involving the Yankees themselves. Times have certainly changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"1732\" data-para-count=\"178\">\u201cIf you win, you\u2019ve earned that right,\u201d Joe Girardi, the Yankees\u2019 manager, said with a shrug. \u201cIf you don\u2019t want them to celebrate, then don\u2019t let them beat you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"1974\" data-para-count=\"242\">Clubhouse celebrations have been a tradition in baseball dating at least to the 1950s. But with the advent of divisional play, and then of three divisions and two wild-card teams in recent years, the Champagne-infused fiestas have mushroomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"2316\" data-para-count=\"342\">There are now five playoff teams in each league, so 10 teams can celebrate their entrance into the postseason. With each round of the playoffs (two wild-card games, two division series, two league championships and one World Series) factored in, baseball can have a total of 17 \u201cChampagne fights,\u201d as Japanese reporters like to call them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" data-total-count=\"2316\" data-para-count=\"342\">Read More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/02\/sports\/baseball\/baltimore-orioles-ny-yankees-wild-card-race.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as the\u00a0Red Sox\u00a0took a 3-0 lead in the top of the eighth inning Wednesday night, Lou Cucuzza Jr., the longtime manager of the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, put in the call to stadium operations. 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