NEW YORK (AP) – The Cleveland Indians could end a few eras tonight.

Roger Clemens could be taking the mound for the last time. Alex Rodriguez could be playing his final game in pinstripes. Joe Torre could be managing for his future with the New York Yankees.

Ahead 2-0 in their best-of-five AL division series after swarming the Yankees at the Jake, the youthful Tribe could be starting a run of their own: The Indians need just one win to advance to their first AL championship series since 1998 – and to send the Yankees home without a World Series title for the seventh straight season.

“We’re not going to relax at all,” Indians first baseman Ryan Garko said. “We just want to put this away.”

Cleveland made the playoffs six times in seven years from 1995-2001 and in 1997 was within two outs of its first World Series title since 1948 when Jose Mesa blew a ninth-inning lead in Game 7 against Florida. These Indians are just starting to fathom what it’s like to play in October.

“I think we could definitely put together a string of four or five years,” said Jake Westbrook, Cleveland’s Game 3 starter.

Yankees veterans, bugged by their deficit, like to say they’ve seen every situation – well, perhaps not the B-movie insect attack of Game 2. They cited their comeback from a 21-29 start this year and an 0-2 deficit against Oakland in 2001’s opening round.

“That is the first thing we looked to last night in the clubhouse,” Andy Pettitte said. “The first thing that goes through your mind is, you know, we’ve done this. We can do this. We can pull this off.”

They haven’t been swept in the playoffs since 1980 but they haven’t overcome much in the postseason since their epic collapse from a 3-0 lead against Boston in the 2004 AL championship series.