The New York Yankees bludgeoned the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 10-1 in Game Four of the ALCS Tuesday night at Angel Stadium of Anaheim to move within one victory of their first trip to the World Series since the 2003 season.
Yankees ace lefthander C.C. Sabathia allowed only one run on five hits and two walks over eight stellar innings to help New York take a commanding 3-1 lead over the Angels in the best-of-seven series.
“He was spectacular again,” Yankees' manager Joe Girardi said of Sabathia, who is now 3-0 ...
If 2004 taught us anything, besides how to properly apply fake blood on a sock for profound effect, it would be to assume nothing.
What you're about to read assumes absolutely nothing. Zilch. Nada. It lives solely in the moment.
The Yankees played one of their best all-around games of the season on Tuesday night, a 10-1 win over the Angels that put them one victory away from their 40th American League pennant.
Until that one victory is attained, I will not gloat, or celebrate, or openly mock Vladimir Guerrero for having the ...
The MLB finally had a chance to do the right thing in regards to a player that was caught cheating, but instead just as usual MLB turned its back on its fans! It's getting very old; this is the same MLB that allowed for steroids to become rampant.
Who was MLB protecting this time? The answer is Mariano Rivera. On camera there's a clip that shows Rivera clearly spitting on a baseball. Here's the clip if you want to see for yourself what Rivera did.
MLB has already made a ruling that ...
So much for CC Sabathia not being able to pitch in the postseason, huh?
On just three days rest, New York Yankees ace CC Sabathia dominated the feeble Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim lineup and Alex Rodriguez hit yet another home run, as the Yankees crushed the Angels last night 10-1 to take a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven ALCS.
However, before I get to my observations of last night’s action, I have to talk about something else first. I hate to talk about something outside the game itself, but in this ...
After a rough Game Three loss to the Angels in 11 innings, the Yankees were under heavy scrutiny for the next 24 hours.
The Yankees weren't hitting with runners in scoring position and relying too much on the home runs and Yankee manager Joe Girardi was heavily criticized for over-managing and taking out David Robertson for Alfredo Aceves, who ended up giving up the game-winning double to Jeff Mathis when Robertson looked dominant and Aceves looked flat.
Going into Tuesday night's Game Four, it was a game the Yankees had to have, ...
It doesn't always take a historical, dramatic baseball game to clue a fanbase in on something special happening with their team.
In the later years of the Joe Torre era, with the bullpen in shambles and the starting rotation often in flux, the uneasy feeling that no lead was safe ran through every regular season game. And in the playoffs, it got worse. Watching close games in the later innings became one Bad Feeling About This after another, until the ax fell.
The lack of a shut-down arm in the bullpen to ...
The Yankees kept blowing opportunities to score.
In the first, Derek Jeter led off with a single, but was caught stealing.
In the second, the first two men reached, but again, New York couldn't get a hit with runners in scoring position.
In the third, Melky Cabrera used a bunt to get aboard, but the Yanks refused to utilize any more small ball to get him over and in.
And each time the Bombers failed to put a run across, the momentum shifted to the hometown Angels.
But not for long.
Every inning, CC Sabathia, working ...
If playoff baseball has the best umpires in the business, there is something very wrong with the business.
In a postseason that has already seen a number of gaffs, the six-man crew covering Game Four of the Yankees-Angels ALCS took incompetency to a whole new level.
The umpiring team made three awful blunders, leaving fans wondering just how many men in black you have to have on the field to get a call correct.
In the age of technology, it also reiterates the frequent call by many for video replays.
The second base ...
Alex Rodriguez connected on his fifth home run of the postseason and CC Sabathia dominated the Los Angeles Angels on short rest as the Yankees won 10-1 to move one win away from a trip to the World Series. A-Rod tied a postseason record with his eighth consecutive game with at least one RBI, and Sabathia handcuffed the Angels through eight innings of one-run ball to take a 3-1 series lead.
The Yankees scored three runs in the fourth inning and A-Rod added a two-run blast in the fifth. ...
While the majority sentiment has focused on over-managing and the alleged Mariano Rivera spitball, it’s an entirely different issue that may have cost the Yankees a nine-inning win last night.
With two on and one out in the top of the eighth and the score tied at four, Melky Cabrera and his slumbering bat feebly approached the plate. Predictably, Cabrera struck out.
The man who should have been hitting in his place, Eric Hinske, was mistakenly left off the Yankees’ ALCS Roster.
Although there are few players in the Yankees’ everyday lineup who ...