NEW YORK -- One of Reggie Jackson's favorite sayings, dispensed annually to prospects during the Yankees' spring camps, is that \"as long as you have a bat in your hands, you can rewrite the story.\" File this one away as Mr. October's Exhibit A for why players must keep swinging.\n\nDown to their final strike,
\n\n \n\n\"You usually don't win many of those, but they just continued to battle and put up good at bats there in the end,\" said Yankees manager Aaron Boone.\n\nAfter a walk and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases,
\n\n \n\nThe rally forced the Yanks' first extra-inning game of the season. Urshela laced a run-scoring single to right field off Díaz, as
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\n\nMaking his second Major League start, King allowed two runs in 3 2/3 innings, peppered for five singles in the fourth -- all but one registering exit velocities of less than 90 mph. The only hard-hit ball of the bunch was a run-scoring hit by Ramos, trailing an earlier RBI flare off Pete Alonso's bat.\n\n\"I've had a couple of those outings in the past where I get hurt or burned on low exit-velocity hits,\" King said. \"I know that it's really me not executing what I what I should be doing, because if I'm executing, I should be getting outs or swings and misses.\"\n\nCanó reached the right-field seats in the fifth inning off Kriske, who loaded the bases with three consecutive walks before being removed in the sixth. Michael Conforto greeted Ben Heller with a two-run double and Alonso was hit by a pitch that forced home the Mets' seventh run.\n\nTauchman and