Yankee fans are really fed up at this point. We should have beat Detroit by six runs yesterday if we had hit in only half the opportunities we had. A-Rod's futility in the post season is hard to explain.
8) The Tigers should close them out tomorrow. This game is all about pitching. The Tigers have better pitchers than the Crankees and that's obvious. Did you listen to Ernie Harwell tonight? They were discussing the Cranks "Great 8+ Cano" lineup and how easily Rogers was handling it. They mentioned the 1930 Phillies who batted .315 as a team and finished in dead last place, losing 102 games...because of lack of pitching...
C'mon. Hats off to the Tigers and I am officially worried now but you can't blame the last two games on the lack of Yankee pitching. The Yankees are not hitting ...period. Johnson didn't pitch that bad last night and Mussina certainly pitched well in game two. How many runners have we stranded in this series? Not to sell Detroit short but if we're hitting at all this series is already over. from today's NY Post... "You look up at the scoreboard and see no runs and you're kind of shaking your head thinking about this great lineup," Johnny Damon said. Since bursting for five runs in a five-batter spurt in the third inning of Game 1, the Yanks have scored five runs in 24 innings. In that span, this mighty lineup has produced as many homers (two) as Detroit center fielder Curtis Granderson. Sure, A-Rod is now at 11 consecutive postseason games without an RBI. But the Yanks are a staggering 1-for-32 with men on base in two straight losses, and that is hardly all Rodriguez. Aside from Jorge Posada, the at-bats generally have been awful. Rodriguez, Jason Giambi and Robinson Cano have been particularly pungent. And Joe Torre's gambit to bench Gary Sheffield, start Bernie Williams as the DH, and play Giambi at first base failed. Williams was hitless with two strikeouts and Giambi's defense cost the Yanks a run. " Pitching has nothing to do with this up to this point.
Huh? Lemme see......Yankees not hitting....Why? Could it be the Tigers pitching?.....Naw.......must be something in the air..........
Read the last sentence of Dodger Dog's post... he's intimating that it's a lack of Yankee pitching that got them to this point and that's not the case at all. I didn't refer to Tiger pitching. Going out to play golf.
Anybody see the ESPN add of Tommy Lasorda pulling the Cleveland fans out from under the sink where they were hiding to yell at them to quit whining and watch the playoffs? Ok, ok...I'm here. 8)
8) Sorry my post caused so much confusion. Sid got my point and George missed it. I was predicting a Tiger victory based on their superior pitching. My point was that it didn't matter how much hitting that a team has, because good pitching will always trump it and that's exactly what happened. This was a classic matchup to illustrate my point. The Yankees were the greatest hitting team in the American League, while the Tigers had the best pitchers and the lowest team ERA. For the hitting team, this is a recipe for disaster and it was. At one point, the Yankees went 20 consecutive innings without scoring a run. They got some garbage runs on batting practice pitches late in today's game when the score reached 8-zip, but they basically didn't have much of a chance. The Tiger pitching staff simply smothered them... The only surprise for me in this series was that the Yankees won any games at all, but I forgot about Wang... ............DD
re: Lasorda ROTFL! Have you seen the one of him trying to coax the Chicago Cubs fan to come down out of the tree? I was thinking of Stu and Sid when I saw those ads. That's funny stuff! ..............DD
Well, what do you get for 200 million? Enough wins to beat out the Dead Sox for first in the Media Division. Baseball fans that don't live in the Northeast will now learn that there are more than 2 types of baseball games ie. Yankes at Boston and Boston at New York. Do you realize that this was almost the most disasterous month in ESPN history. If TO and the Yanks had both died they would have absolutely NOTHING to report from thier view of the "world of sports."
re: ESPN Perhaps they could have scheduled a strip poker tournament from Vegas featuring Maria Sharapova and Danica Patrick...