The Yankees have secured their spot in the World Series for the first time in 15 years after Saturday night’s big win in Cleveland.

Before it’s time to play ball at Yankee Stadium, there’s excitement in the air—not just inside the stadium but also directly underneath the 4, B and D subway lines on River Avenue at Ballpark Sports. The buzz isn’t just about fans buying official Yankees merchandise before the playoff game.

Hidden in the back, this sports shop offers relief for fans turned away from the stadium with banned belongings.

“The security is telling them, ‘Oh, you can’t bring this bag in here, you can’t bring this laptop in here,’ and of course they are gonna be panicked,” said store manager Yousef Abbadi, speaking about his experience with fans in need of storage who wind up in his shop.

The lockers here provide short-term storage. There is no storage area at Yankee Stadium. Ever since the new Yankee Stadium instituted stricter security guidelines—such as prohibiting laptops, selfie sticks, video cameras, hard-sided bags, and bags over a certain size—fans have turned to small businesses like Ballpark Sports to store their belongings.

“Came from work, had my laptop, not allowed to bring it in, my sister found this across the street, and here we go,” one fan told NY1 while putting his things inside a locker.

Abbadi said his business doesn’t rely solely on locker rentals, but it helps.

“We don’t do much on lockers, but we do more on merchandise, and so that helped us more. But the lockers, they come in handy, you know. You’re in New York. You pay a lot in rent, a lot for the electricity especially, so that helps, of course,” Abbadi said.

Abbadi, a Yemeni-American who was born and raised in the Bronx, is helping his father, Abdul Abbadi, run the store. His grandfather opened the family’s first Yankees sports store in the 1970s—Stadium Souvenirs—also on River Avenue.

Abdul said he’s been there for the last five Yankees World Series championships in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009.

“Our business is about the Yankee. If the Yankee doing good, we doing good. If the Yankee are not doing good, we are doing nothing; even we can’t pay the rent sometimes,” said Abdul.

Ballpark Sports started with 36 lockers and has grown its storage area to 150.

It’s a family-run business that’s helping to enhance the Yankees experience for fans like Jaime Lopez from Texas, who flew in just for the game—his first one at the iconic Yankee Stadium.

“I just had to put my bags in there, pair of clothes, not getting a hotel, so that’s my clothes in there,” Lopez said. “It’s going to save us a bunch of money.”

Lopez told NY1 he’s going to change at the airport before his flight back home to Texas.

Lockers fans count on, while the business counts on the Bronx Bombers.

“We planning to stay here until we die,” said Yousef Abbadi, laughing. “This is the best, Yankee universe.”