Cleveland All-Star closer Emmanuel Glass allowed two runs in the ninth inning. The New York Yankees outscored the Guardians 8-6 on Friday night to take a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series and move closer to another World Series.
Kleyber Torres had an RBI single and New York scored the go-ahead run when shortstop Brian Rocchio led off Alex Verdugo's grounder on an error.
It was a confusing ninth for Glass (0-2), as baseball's best reliever was replaced for the second straight night.
New York got three singles in the ninth from the right-hander, who gave up consecutive home runs in the eighth inning of Game 3, but left when the Guardians hit two-run homers in the ninth and 10th.
Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run homer and Juan Soto hit a two-run homer to give the Yankees a chance to win Game 5 on Saturday night and advance to their 41st World Series.
Austin Wells also stayed in New York.
The Guardians face postseason elimination for the second time. They bounced back in the ALDS to beat Detroit and needed to win three straight, including two at Yankee Stadium, to end their 76-year World Series drought.
For the second night in a row, New York's bullpen took a late lead. The Guardians scored three runs in the seventh, one in the eighth and threatened in the ninth, putting two runners on base.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone turned to Tommy Kahnle (and Luke Weaver wasn't the closer) for the final three outs and the right-hander was able to eliminate Cleveland, something New York's relievers couldn't do on Thursday.
Stanton's 404-foot shot off Kate Smith in the sixth inning gave the Yankees a 6-2 lead.
Cleveland scored three times in the seventh and rookie Jankenzie Noel, who hit a pinch-hit home run in the ninth inning in Game 3, sent a chill through Progressive Field by going off the warning track.
Cleveland tied it in the eighth when the Yankees, who were hurting in the field and on the bases, made an easy infield play.
Bo Naylor doubled and led off with an infield grounder. Mark Leiter Jr., who was added to the Yankees' ALCS roster earlier in the day as an injury replacement, managed to get Steven Kwan to appear. Leiter left the inning when David Frye, one of Cleveland's Game 3 home run stars, hit a slow grounder to right.
Leiter drove the ball to the grass and made a bare-handed catch as he approached first down the foul line, but the ball went into the legs of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, allowing Naylor to score the tying run. .
Stanton, who hit back-to-back homers off Aaron Judge in the eighth inning on Thursday, gave the Yankees a four-run lead with the 15th home run of his postseason career.
Smith singled to lead off the sixth and Judge singled before Stanton drove a 1-2 fastball from Smith into the stands.
Stanton tied Carlos Beltrán and Nelson Cruz for the most home runs in 35 career playoff games. Stanton tied Judge and Babe Ruth for fourth place in club history.
