Tigers end Yanks’ season for second time in six years, win 2011 ALDS three games to two.
The 2011 Yankees were a great offensive team, posting the third-best wOBA in MLB (.346) and tying for the second-best wRC+ (113) in the league. In the most important game of the season, the team that [...]
The tone of the second game of the Yankees-Tigers 2011 ALDS was set almost immediately, as blasted an opposite field two-run home run with two outs in the top of the 1st inning off Freddy Garcia, and the Yankees would end up playing behind the entire game, ultimately
Note: This was obviously written prior to Friday’s rainout, and so you’ll have to disregard anything about Garcia pitching on the road and Scherzer at home.
The 2011 ALDS shifts to Detroit tonight, as soft-tossing Freddy Garcia takes on his antithesis, the hard-throwing . [...]
I hate this question. However, it’s an inevitable one that baseball fans will continue to ask because until you know who your team’s postseason opponent is there isn’t really much else one can do aside from debate whether one team would be “preferable” to the other.
The reason I hate this question is because there’s [...]
Inside Weaver’s outing against the Yankees
By Larry Koestler On September 15, 2011 · 3 Comments · In PitchFX, Player Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Both and put on respective pitching clinics last weekend while facing the Yankees, combining to hold the vaunted Bomber lineup to one run over 18 innings, whiffing 17 men and allowing only seven hits. While there’s something to be said for the fact that neither hurler faced [...]
Forgive me if I keep this one short, but it’s no fun recapping boring games. And that’s exactly what this was, if you were a Yankee fan. The Tigers won the game handily, 4-0, led by and his lights out stuff. Scherzer pitched eight innings of shutout ball on 109 pitches. [...]
Starting lineups for today’s game, first pitch at 1:05 on YES, with the Yankees going for the 3 game sweep to start the season:
Tigers
CF
2B
DH
1B
C
I was debating titling this post something along the lines of “Offensive woes continue” or “Nightmarish August continues for Yankee offense” and then realized that “Offensive” summed the current situation up pretty well. Plus, at the rate the Yankees aren’t scoring runs, I can only imagine I’ll be able to [...]
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