A last-minute deal will keep the Yankees games on Comcast cable. The games were going to leave if a deal was not reached by end of Monday.

In a surprise development, YES Network and Comcast on Monday night reached a new carriage agreement, coming to terms on a deal just hours before the regional sports network was set to go dark in Xfinity households across northern New Jersey,

YES Network will not go dark for subscribers to Comcast’s Xfinity TV thanks to the new deal. It was far from a sure thing, but Comcast and YES Network have come through with a new carriage deal. The two sides reached an agreement on a renewed contract late Monday evening,