Left for dead by many, the Yankees are nine innings away from advancing to the ALCS.

Coming home from Cleveland after dropping the first two games of the ALDS to the Indians, the Yankees were reeling. They were blanked in Game 1 and watched Joe Girardi botch a challenge situation that led to losing Game 2.

Now, thanks to a 7-3 win over the Indians in Game 4 on Monday night in front of a sold-out Yankee Stadium crowd of 47,316, the Yankees will play the Indians on Wednesday evening at Progressive Field in Game 5 with the winner advancing to the best-of-seven ALCS to play the Astros.

“I think the momentum is on our side,’’ said Brett Gardner, whose mates are 3-0 in elimination games in the postseason and hunting for a fourth. “We look a lot better the last couple of days. Game 5 will be a lot of fun.’’

The Yankees could have gone with Sonny Gray in Game 5 but will hand the ball to CC Sabathia, who pitched better in Game 2 than Gray did in Game 1. For the Indians, there is no second choice: they will go with Cy Young candidate Corey Kluber, who the Yankees spanked in Game 2.

Masahiro Tanaka’s right arm and Greg Bird’s bat kept the Yankees alive in Game 3, a 1-0 victory. Luis Severino, Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Tommy Kahnle combined to get the Yankees even. And don’t forget the Indians committing four errors that led to six of the Yankees’ seven runs being unearned.

“The whole night we made it hard on ourselves to win,’’ Indians manager Terry Francona said. “We kept trying but we kept shooting ourselves in the foot.’’

Severino’s miserable performance in the wild-card game against the Twins dominated the pregame discussions after he faced six batters, retired one, gave up three runs and taxed the bullpen.

Monday night he dominated a far better lineup than the Twins.

“I was feeling great, the location of my pitches was great,’’ said Severino, who allowed three runs, four hits, a walk and struck out nine.

Staked to a 4-0 lead in the second inning when the Yankees chased Game 1 tormentor Trevor Bauer with a two-run double by Judge, an RBI double by Todd Frazier and Aaron Hicks’ RBI single, Severino roared through the first three innings before giving up a two-run, two-out homer to Carlos Santana in the fourth and a solo homer to Roberto Perez in the fifth that cut the Yankees’ lead to 5-3.

A sixth unearned run pushed it to 6-3 and Sanchez’s bases-empty homer in the sixth made it 7-3.

Following a perfect sixth, Girardi sent Severino to the mound for the seventh with a pitch count of 92.

“I heard the Stadium calling my name,’’ said Severino of the “Severino, Severino’’ chant that filled the air.

Severino gave up a one-out single to Michael Brantley and then retired the next two batters to end his night.

Dellin Betances provided some unnecessary drama by walking the first two batters of the eighth and was replaced by Kahnle. He retired three straight, and with Aroldis Chapman throwing in the bullpen, Kahnle fanned all three batters in the ninth for his first save as a Yankee.

“It’s been a grind,’’ Judge said of playing three straight lose-and-go-home games. “But we keep winning and that’s the most important thing.’’

The fourth elimination game is Wednesday when the Yankees attempt to be the seventh team in Division Series history to climb all the way out of a 0-2 hole.

“We have won three games, all at home and we are used to the pressure for the last week or so,’’ said Gardner, whose sacrifice fly plated Frazier in the fifth inning. “I am looking forward to it.’’

Considering where they were late Friday night, the Yankees would be crazy not to be.