 late heroics Aaron Hicks game time to run home run he's seven for his last 19 in his last five games in the walk-off pinch hit home run for Neil Walker is the first by a Yankee since Brian McCann all the way back in August of 2014 and I want to go back to what you said about the Aaron Hicks at bat he was a head 3-0 went to 3-2 called it a good at bat which stands out to me not a big statement good at bat right but they hadn't had many of those all night but when you and I did the cut in in the seventh inning we had just seen a couple of good at bats in the sixth inning and at that point I said they've got nine outs to play with but they need to have a succession of those at bats that we just saw you go back to the sixth inning Gardner Torres Voigt and Doohar with the home run they all had good at bats and you're right about Hicks one of the things the Yankees have loved about him this year is that improved plate discipline and the ability to control the strike zone late in the game like that you don't want to help the pitcher out so it goes to 3-0 the 3-1 pitch I think Hicks actually thought it was ball for he swings 3-1 that might have been another ball then he gets that 3-2 pitch and the location of it just middle and a little bit up and Hicks able to do some serious damage against that pitch all right so we've talked about the fact that they wasted opportunities throughout the game thought that was going to happen in the bottom of the six Brett Gardner lead-off triple a couple quick pop-ups from Stanton and Hicks they don't want to waste that lead-off triple Miguel and Doohar made sure they didn't