NEW YORK -- All series long -- and this series ultimately lasted just four days, so it was not so very long, but still -- the Twins again and again talked about how close they were to breaking through against the Yankees. That they had held a lead at some point in each of their eight consecutive postseason losses against New York was a statistic to which they kept referring, as if it had a great significance. "We're in almost every ballgame," manager Ron Gardenhire said on Friday. "We haven't been able to finish them off."
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