Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 07, 2006
Three Outs to Go

The Tigers don't score in the eighth. They lead 8-1 as the Yankees come up in the ninth with Abreu, Sheffield and Matsui due up.

Update: Abreu singles to left. The Yankees need a lot more of those.

Update: Monroe makes a great diving catch on a high line drive by Sheffield that was tailing toward the leftfield line. That's it for Bonderman, leaving the game with two outs to go.

Update: Bonderman throws 99 pitches, 70 for strikes. Walker is on against Matsui.

Update: Matsui flies out to centerfield. It's up to Posada.

Update: Jorge hits it over the left-center wall for a two-run homer. It's 8-3, but the Yankees still have no room for error.

Update: Cano grounds out to second to end the game. The Tigers are off to Oakland for the ALCS! Congratulations to Detroit! They took on the best offense in the game and shut them down. What an amazing win.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:11 PM | League Division Series | TrackBack (0)
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And that guy who got Leyland to kiss his hat is going to drink for free for a week in Detroit.

Posted by: Joseph J. Finn at October 7, 2006 07:29 PM

With their payroll, it's pitiful that the Yankees can't even make the WS. I don't want to any more hear what a good manager Torre is. I don't want to hear any more what a good GM Cashman is. He makes terrible baseball decisions. If the Yankees had an average payroll with those decisions, they would lose 90+ games every year.

Posted by: Joseph at October 7, 2006 07:33 PM

Well, the reason Cashman makes awful decisions is because he has the cash to do so. If he was operating on even a 120 million payroll, like the Red Sox, would he have paid Farnsworth 7 mil a year? Been able to pick up Abreu for basically just paying his contract? Would they be able to pay a 40-billion year old Johnson 17 million? I don't think so.

Posted by: Evan at October 7, 2006 07:39 PM

The Yankee payroll automatically earned $100 million this year for other teams in revenue sharing and luxury tax.
That money went out of the pocket of the Yankee fan and his family and into the pocket of multi millionaires to do with as they please. And they're going after more. How easy is it for them? Very. They make sure enough
hate and envy are ginned up so even more Yankee fans can't afford to go to a game. The Tigers alone got $25 million in revenue sharing this year, mostly from the Yankee fan.

Posted by: susan mullen at October 7, 2006 08:28 PM
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