By the end of the six innings, the New York Yankees were down 5-0 to the Texas Rangers.
Yankees ace CC Sabathia had to exit after the fourth; his shortest outing of the season.
On the other end, Rangers starter CJ Wilson was shutting down the deep New York line-up. Wilson gave up a homerun to Robbie Cano to start the seventh, but retired the next three and the held the Yankees to a 5-1 score.
Wilson had been terrific and more, but at the start of the eighth inning he gave up ...
The look on Nolan Ryan's face toward the end of the top half of the eight inning said it all. What was happening was shocking, unfathomable and frustrating. Couldn't any pitcher get a gosh darn out? The occurrences of that inning were a reminder to the Texas Rangers, their fans and their gregarious owner and erstwhile pitcher of just what they were up against. In an inning when the Rangers used five pitchers before an out was recorded, the Yankees showed the mettle that makes them the owners of 27 ...
A gutsy, heads-up play by Brett Gardner set up a stunning five run eighth inning for the New York Yankees, who came back from four runs down to beat the Texas Rangers, 6-5, and take Game 1 of the ALCS last night in Arlington. Gardner beat Rangers' starting picther, C.J. Wilson, to the bag with a headfirst slide after pulling a groundball to first in the top of the eighth.
With that play, the Yankees would go on to score runs on RBI hits from Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano ...
I am 100 percent confident that C.J. Wilson does NOT give up five runs in the eighth inning if Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington allowed Wilson to stay in the game.
Wilson ended up allowing two runs on two hits that inning, and was pulled in favor of Darren Oliver following a Derek Jeter RBI double.
But the Yankees would probably have only scored those two runs (or maybe just the one already in) had Texas manager Ron Washington avoided being like Bobby Cox and Bruce Bochy.
When you try to over-manage based ...
CC Sabathia was chased by the Texas Rangers after pitching only four innings, his shortest outing of the year.
Sabathia scattered five earned runs over those four innings, the big blow being the Josh Hamilton three-run shot in the first inning.
If you take that away, the Yankees would've still been in the game when Sabathia exited.
One of the biggest problems for Sabathia this postseason is the walks. He has accumulated three against the Twins in the ALDS and four against the Rangers last night.
However, despite Sabathia's performance, the Yankees were able ...
Here is the good news for Texas Rangers’ fans: At least closer Neftali Feliz is fresh for today's Game 2.
Feliz is fresh because Rangers’ manager Ron Washington handled his bullpen as poorly as any manager I can remember in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the ALCS. The New York Yankees beat up the Rangers’ bullpen to score five runs in the top of the eighth as they came back to beat Texas, 6-5.
The Rangers were cruising in this game, 5-1 going into the eighth inning thanks to ...
The League Championship Series are under way between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers in the American League and the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants in the National League.
It has become customary to see Latino players every year excel in a single moment or throughout a whole series.
So far, names such as the Rangers’ Nelson Cruz and Vladimir Guerrero and Yankees’ Robinson Cano, Jorge Posada and Alex Rodriguez are in full swing in support of their teams to go to the next and final round—the World Series.
In the senior ...
The other day you might have noticed a post on the Yankees Chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance that announced our vote for the winner of the Manager of the Year Award, or the Connie Mack Award. Today we are presenting the Rookie of the Year, or Willie Mays Award.
The Willie Mays Award is our version of the Rookie of the Year Award. We named it after Mays because he won the ROY in his rookie season as a 20 year old when he smacked 20 homers and put up ...
The Yankees lead the majors in come-from-behind wins this season, so it is natural that they rely on them in the postseason as well. In the ALDS they came from behind twice to beat the Twins, and last night they came back from a 5-0 deficit to beat the Rangers 6-5 while taking Game 1 of the ALCS.
Here are some highlights:
Thanks in part to a three-run first-inning homer by Josh Hamilton, the Rangers knocked CC Sabathia out of the game after just four innings.
With the Yankees down 5-0, ...
Well ladies and gentlemen, the 2010 Major League season has reached its very own Final Four in the form of the two League Championship Series.The American League will pit the defending champion New York Yankees against the first-time winners Texas Rangers, while the National League will feature the back-to-back National League champion Philadelphia Phillies against the upstart San Francisco Giants.While the ALCS promises to display power with the slugging offenses of the Rangers and the start studded Yankees, the NLCS plans on displaying the so called "arms race," featuring the ...