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Who Most Deserves Game 5 Benching: A-Rod, Nick Swisher or Curtis Granderson?

Baltimore Orioles forced a decisive Game 5 in their ALDS with the New York Yankees on Thursday night (Oct. 11) with a 2-1 victory in 13 innings.

While the Orioles deserve credit for pushing the series to this point due to some outstanding pitching and unexpectedly timely hitting (Nate McLouth? Really?), the storyline is inevitably going to be "What's wrong with the Yankees?" rather than how the O's won.

Giving that Yankees-centric storyline even more juice is the fact that three of the team's most prominent hitters have struggled terribly through the first four games of this ALDS. Not surprisingly, the Yanks have only scored six runs in their past three games. Add in the seven they scored in Game 1, and the Bronx Bombers have bombed, putting an ...

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