NY Post · Apr 18, 2019
Brett Gardner couldn’t have drawn up this milestone blast any better
Brett Gardner Anthony J. CausiDid Yankee Stadium play host to another notable milestone on Wednesday night?
The best career 100th home run ever?
Who can even remember when others reached such a modest round number? Coming off the veteran bat of Brett Gardner, though, amidst baseball’s greatest rivalry, it couldn’t have felt much more grandiose.
“Yeah, it was a big feeling,” Gardner acknowledged after No. 100, a seventh-inning grand slam off Boston’s Ryan Brasier, catapulted the Yankees to a 5-3 victory over — and a series sweep of — the defending champions.
“Hoo, that was big,” Aaron Boone echoed.