Yankees clinch 27th consecutive winning season
Death, taxes, and the New York Yankees finishing above .500.
The Yankees' incredible season marched on with a 3-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Friday, a victory that clinched their 27th consecutive winning record and continued the second-longest streak in baseball history.
Some things never change. pic.twitter.com/FZWrHPwcRv
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 17, 2019
The Yankees' last sub-.500 campaign came in 1992 when they stumbled to a fourth-place finish at 76-86.
Over the course of this 27-season run, New York has won 14 division titles (including the strike-shortened 1994 season), missing the playoffs only six times. They've also won five of their 27 World Series titles, and seven AL pennants, during this era of dominance, while accruing an astounding 2,502 regular-season wins since Opening Day 1993.
This has been something of a miracle season for the Yankees, who managed to clinch a winning record over six weeks before the end of the season despite a seemingly never-ending parade of injuries. Former MVP Giancarlo Stanton and 2018 Rookie of the Year runner-up Miguel Andujar have both missed the majority of this season, and the team currently has 16 players on the injured list.
The all-time record for consecutive winning seasons is 39, set by - who else? - the Yankees, between 1926 and 1964. The second-longest active streak currently belongs to the St. Louis Cardinals, who have finished above .500 in each of the last 11 years, per MLB Stats.