Last night wasn’t a great night in Yankeeland. Hardly anything went right as the Yanks were outplayed by the Astros in every phase of the game. We need a blow.
Where to start…Gerrit Cole was not at his best last night, yet he shut down the Bombers. The offense could not come up with a knock in a big spot to save their lives. They really did a fine job keeping traffic on the bases against the nightmare that is Cole, but they just came up short time and again whenever they manufactured an opportunity to score. Four times in the first five innings did they put multiple runners on against Cole, but he slipped away en route to seven shutout innings. The Yankees’ ALCS offense. LeMahieu, Judge and Torres are 14-for-38 with three homers, eight RBIs and five walks — Torres’ eighth-inning homer off Joe Smith accounting for the Yanks’ lone Game 3 run. Everyone else is 10-for-71 with two homers, two RBIs and six walks. Gary Sanchez is 1-for-13 with six whiffs in this ALCS, 2-for-25 with 12 strikeouts and no extra-base hits in these playoffs and 16-for-92 with 34 strikeouts in his postseason totality. Still, Boone said he would not sit Sanchez for Austin Romine. Say What? I’m still trying to understand Boones decision to not have Gardy bunt. Then there is his decision to keep using Adam Ottivino in high stress situations. Ottavino has appeared in all six postseason games and has an 11.59 ERA. Why Aaron? Outside of the currently-erratic right-handed setup man, the Yankees’ bullpen continued to earn their money. Both Tommy Kahnle and Chad Green looked excellent covering the middle innings, and even Luis Cessa got in on the fun with two scoreless innings. It didn't help. The Yankees need a breather. They need a blow. Mostly, they could use the break to being able to hand the ball to Masahiro Tanaka on full rest. Our manager needs a blow…time to reconsider his “patience” with certain players. Time for Kahnle, Green, Britton and the rest of the bullpen, to get some rest. It’s supposed to rain tonight due to a Nor’easter. If it doesn’t rain maybe we can organize a few buddies to sneak into Yankee Stadium when no one’s looking and turn on the sprinkler system. We all need a blow. Even I need a blow from all the negative social media comments from so called Yankee fans who were ready to give up and declare the Astros series winners in the second inning of last night’s game. They forgot you need to win 4 to take home the big trophy. We Don’t want to play tonight. We need a blow.
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randy
10/16/2019 10:00:11 am
Yankees are way overatted
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Stan
10/16/2019 10:32:24 am
Win or lose Yankees had a great season , 2 big games coming up at Yankee Stadium , hopefully on Thursday and Friday.................................As for the NY Mets ..........another piss poor season................
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Randy
10/16/2019 10:43:39 am
if you had met starters you'd be up 3-0
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Jeff
10/16/2019 01:55:20 pm
Well they got the cancelation!
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Stan
10/17/2019 09:33:22 am
I like Yankees winning in a rout tonight !!!!!!
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