Down 0-2 in the ALCS, the New York Yankees aren't feeling good about their chances. If they want to make this a series, they'll have to win Game 3 against Detroit's Justin Verlander. The Yankees know this is their do-or-die game. If they go down 0-3, winning four against this Detroit Tigers pitching staff is damn near impossible—unless they go all Boston Red Sox on them. The slumping Alex Rodriguez and Company should also know that if they manage to squeeze out a win they will have CC Sabathia going in Game ...
The New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers are exposing the MLB playoffs, and the game of baseball in general, for what they really are.In baseball, a single pitch in a hitter's hot zone could be the deciding factor between a World Series appearance or historical insignificance. More often than not, a confident team feeding off of recent success is better-suited for October than a team that appears to be superior on paper.In the case of the 2012 American League Championship Series, the Tigers are playing the role of the ...
I've hit my boiling point with Alex Rodriguez.For the longest time, I've tried to defend him and support him when everyone ragged on him, but I'm seriously done vouching for him.It's not the .143 he's currently hitting in the postseason that did it; I've grown to accept that he's a failure in the playoffs.It's not the five years and $150 million the Yankees still owe him until the end of the 2017 season, which is one of the worst contracts in team history and perhaps all of baseball.It's not even ...
We've seen the New York Yankees look bad in the postseason before. They lost in the LDS three years in a row between 2005 and 2007, and they fell short of the Fall Classic in both 2010 and 2011 when they came up against superior teams.But in this year's postseason, the Yankees have sunk to a new low. They barely got past the Baltimore Orioles in the ALDS, and they find themselves down 2-0 in the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers with the series set to start ...
Little can be said for the Yankees' offense so far this postseason, but one thing is for certain, they can't get much worse.After suffering a 3-0 loss in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, many Yankees find themselves in horrible slumps that have made the terrific efforts from their starting pitchers useless.Here are a few literally offensive numbers that will make Yankee fans cringe.Robinson Cano is hitless in his last 26 AB, marking the longest stretch without a hit for any batter in postseason history. The last time ...
If there was any question as to how Alex Rodriguez was handling being benched during the New York Yankees' recent playoff games, we might have an answer now. The $275 million man appears to have checked out.According to a report in the New York Post, Rodriguez had other things on his mind after he was replaced by pinch-hitter Eric Chavez in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the ALCS on Saturday (Oct. 13). With the Yankees down 4-0 to the Detroit Tigers at the time, A-Rod was apparently more ...
Through seven games of the 2012 playoff season, the Yankees' offensivenumbers, across the board, are beyond bleak. The team slash line is .205 avg/.277 OBP/.326 SLG/.603 OBPS, an ugly sight by any measure and a perfect example of a situation where the numbers don't lie.
These are the Bronx Bombers, the same guys who hit more home runs, by far, than any MLB team this year. The team that, despite an all-or-nothing approach, still scored more runs than any team in baseball this year with the exception of Texas.
And Texas scored just four more runs—808 to 804.
In terms of the ...
With the way that the Detroit Tigers starting pitchers have thrown the ball in the playoffs, it's fair to wonder whether they aren't in fact Terminators, sent here to kill the World Series hopes of every team in their path.
Tigers Starting PitchersERA This Postseason: Max Scherzer0.00Justin Verlander0.56Anibal Sanchez1.35Doug Fister1.35— John Buccigross (@Buccigross) October 16, 2012
But alas, they are human, and that means that they are not foolproof.They can have an off night—even the best pitcher on the planet, Justin Verlander.Verlander has made two playoff starts against the New York ...
With a payroll that exceeds the national budget of 35 countries, many observers don’t give Brian Cashman much credit for what he does. When you have that much money to play with how can you make the wrong decision? And if you hiccup it’s cleaned, stored away, and forgotten. Kei Igawa, anyone? But, Cashman deserves some supreme kudos for the heist he pulled off on July 23. In exchange for cash and minor leaguers D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquhar, the Bombers received future Hall of Fame outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. I ...
George Steinbrenner must have risen from his grave, walked out to Monument Park following the demoralizing Game 2 loss by his beloved New York Yankees, strolled past the plaques for Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio and croaked all over again. Or was it Derek Jeter? Did Jeter break his ankle, or did he die on the infield dirt during extra innings of Game 1? It has to be one of the two, because the only explanation for a seemingly never-ending stream of Yankees obituaries this week would be if one ...