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Tigers shock Yankees in dramatic Game 5
October, 7, 2011
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By David Schoenfield
I was sure Alex Rodriguez was going to pop one out.
I was pretty sure Mark Teixeira was going to pop one out.
I knew Nick Swisher was going to knock one over the short porch in right field, probably down the line and into the first row.
That's what we expect from the New York Yankees, isn't it?
When the Yankees asked Joaquin Benoit to remove the big Band-aid that covered a big zit or mosquito bite or whatever had infected his cheek like a small alien, you knew it was coming: Benoit would be rattled, he'd be thinking about exposing his sore to a national TV audience more than throwing strikes, and the Yankees would win another big October game.
Band-aid Gate. We all saw it coming.
And it almost did. It was the bottom of the seventh inning when Curtis Granderson reached out on a 3-2 pitch off the plate and looped a liner into right field to move Derek Jeter to second base. Robinson Cano hit a dribbler to Benoit's right that he stabbed at and somehow missed to load the bases. Bringing up Rodriguez. He just missed 1-1, 95-mph fastball, fouling it straight back. He laid off a low changeup. Benoit came back with another changeup, a fantastic one that dove inside, an unhittable pitch. A-Rod missed it, swinging over the top. The fans booed as he walked back to the dugout. Sometimes it's not easy being the $275 million cleanup hitter.
But Teixeira walked on five pitches. Tigers 3, Yankees 2.
Nothing beats the tension of postseason baseball, especially in Yankee Stadium, with a visiting team trying to pull off the upset, the fans on their feet, too nervous to cheer or boo, it seemed. Maybe we've seen too many ballparks with fans waving towels. Maybe we just haven't seen enough Game 5s or Game 7s in recent years. But this felt like the most pressure-filled October moment in a long time.
Nick Swisher struck out on a 2-2, 96-mph fastball.
Tigers fans exhaled for the first time in 12 minutes.
Benoit had needed 23 pitches to get two outs. The Tigers still needed six more.
Tension? It was punishment for fans on both sides, 166 games of big wins, big home runs and big comebacks, all down to two innings of October baseball. This is why we watch those games when it's 48 degrees and drizzling in April, why we watch those three-hour games that move slower than a slug in the sun, meaningless games against the Royals or Twins in June. To get here. To get to six more outs.
As Jeter stepped in with two outs and Brett Gardner on first base in the eight, Benoit had thrown 36 pitches. He hadn't thrown 37 pitches in a game all season. You can't make that kind of stuff up. On Benoit's 37th pitch, Gardner took off, Jeter took his classic inside-out swing ... Don Kelly took a step or two back, that right-field wall at Yankee Stadium that seems like it was built for Whiffleball park looming just a few feet behind him ... it looked like it had a chance ... fans reaching over, trying to pull a Jeffrey Maier ... the ball dropping into Kelly's glove.
So of course it came down to Jose Valverde, the man who said the series wouldn't return to New York. All he had to do was retire Granderson, Cano and Rodriguez. The big pitch was a 3-2 fastball to Granderson that he popped up to left. Cano lined softly to center. A-Rod swung through a 94-mph fastball. Game over, Tigers move on, Yankees go home, A-Rod walks off to more boos, the fans not caring that he was playing with a bad knee or that he wasn't the only Yankee to come up short in this series.
* * * *
Three big moments in this game:
1. Home runs from Don Kelly and Delmon Young in the first inning. I criticized Jim Leyland for hitting Kelly second. As we say: You gotta make the plays and Don Kelly came through.
2. After yanking Ivan Nova after two innings, it forced Joe Girardi's hand to essentially use CC Sabathia. I didn't like the idea of using CC and he didn't pitch well. He got four outs, but gave up two hits, two walks and the run that proved to be the winning run. Of the 37 pitches he threw, just 19 were for strikes.
3. Yankees third-base coach Rob Thompson held up Rodriguez at third base on Jorge Posada's one-out single in the fourth. Rodriguez had reached the bag right as Austin Jackson picked up the ball. Jackson has a decent arm and threw out eight runners on the season. It probably would have been a bang-bang play, especially with Rodriguez not at 100 percent full speed. Russell Martin popped out to first and Gardner fouled out to leave Rodriguez stranded.
* * * *
During his postgame press conference, Leyland said it perfectly: "This will be a game I'll remember the rest of my life." He pointed out he's been on both sides of it. Asked about Kelly's home run, he said, "Sometimes things just work out for you." He then praised Kelly, said it couldn't happen to a better kid, and nearly got choked up, knowing what that home run will mean for Kelly for the rest of his life.
And that's October baseball. Unsung heroes, big strikeouts, big hits, tension, pain and suffering ... and joy.
And memories.
October, 7, 2011
OCT 7
12:12
AM ET
EmailPrintComments
690
By David Schoenfield
I was sure Alex Rodriguez was going to pop one out.
I was pretty sure Mark Teixeira was going to pop one out.
I knew Nick Swisher was going to knock one over the short porch in right field, probably down the line and into the first row.
That's what we expect from the New York Yankees, isn't it?
When the Yankees asked Joaquin Benoit to remove the big Band-aid that covered a big zit or mosquito bite or whatever had infected his cheek like a small alien, you knew it was coming: Benoit would be rattled, he'd be thinking about exposing his sore to a national TV audience more than throwing strikes, and the Yankees would win another big October game.
Band-aid Gate. We all saw it coming.
And it almost did. It was the bottom of the seventh inning when Curtis Granderson reached out on a 3-2 pitch off the plate and looped a liner into right field to move Derek Jeter to second base. Robinson Cano hit a dribbler to Benoit's right that he stabbed at and somehow missed to load the bases. Bringing up Rodriguez. He just missed 1-1, 95-mph fastball, fouling it straight back. He laid off a low changeup. Benoit came back with another changeup, a fantastic one that dove inside, an unhittable pitch. A-Rod missed it, swinging over the top. The fans booed as he walked back to the dugout. Sometimes it's not easy being the $275 million cleanup hitter.
But Teixeira walked on five pitches. Tigers 3, Yankees 2.
Nothing beats the tension of postseason baseball, especially in Yankee Stadium, with a visiting team trying to pull off the upset, the fans on their feet, too nervous to cheer or boo, it seemed. Maybe we've seen too many ballparks with fans waving towels. Maybe we just haven't seen enough Game 5s or Game 7s in recent years. But this felt like the most pressure-filled October moment in a long time.
Nick Swisher struck out on a 2-2, 96-mph fastball.
Tigers fans exhaled for the first time in 12 minutes.
Benoit had needed 23 pitches to get two outs. The Tigers still needed six more.
Tension? It was punishment for fans on both sides, 166 games of big wins, big home runs and big comebacks, all down to two innings of October baseball. This is why we watch those games when it's 48 degrees and drizzling in April, why we watch those three-hour games that move slower than a slug in the sun, meaningless games against the Royals or Twins in June. To get here. To get to six more outs.
As Jeter stepped in with two outs and Brett Gardner on first base in the eight, Benoit had thrown 36 pitches. He hadn't thrown 37 pitches in a game all season. You can't make that kind of stuff up. On Benoit's 37th pitch, Gardner took off, Jeter took his classic inside-out swing ... Don Kelly took a step or two back, that right-field wall at Yankee Stadium that seems like it was built for Whiffleball park looming just a few feet behind him ... it looked like it had a chance ... fans reaching over, trying to pull a Jeffrey Maier ... the ball dropping into Kelly's glove.
So of course it came down to Jose Valverde, the man who said the series wouldn't return to New York. All he had to do was retire Granderson, Cano and Rodriguez. The big pitch was a 3-2 fastball to Granderson that he popped up to left. Cano lined softly to center. A-Rod swung through a 94-mph fastball. Game over, Tigers move on, Yankees go home, A-Rod walks off to more boos, the fans not caring that he was playing with a bad knee or that he wasn't the only Yankee to come up short in this series.
* * * *
Three big moments in this game:
1. Home runs from Don Kelly and Delmon Young in the first inning. I criticized Jim Leyland for hitting Kelly second. As we say: You gotta make the plays and Don Kelly came through.
2. After yanking Ivan Nova after two innings, it forced Joe Girardi's hand to essentially use CC Sabathia. I didn't like the idea of using CC and he didn't pitch well. He got four outs, but gave up two hits, two walks and the run that proved to be the winning run. Of the 37 pitches he threw, just 19 were for strikes.
3. Yankees third-base coach Rob Thompson held up Rodriguez at third base on Jorge Posada's one-out single in the fourth. Rodriguez had reached the bag right as Austin Jackson picked up the ball. Jackson has a decent arm and threw out eight runners on the season. It probably would have been a bang-bang play, especially with Rodriguez not at 100 percent full speed. Russell Martin popped out to first and Gardner fouled out to leave Rodriguez stranded.
* * * *
During his postgame press conference, Leyland said it perfectly: "This will be a game I'll remember the rest of my life." He pointed out he's been on both sides of it. Asked about Kelly's home run, he said, "Sometimes things just work out for you." He then praised Kelly, said it couldn't happen to a better kid, and nearly got choked up, knowing what that home run will mean for Kelly for the rest of his life.
And that's October baseball. Unsung heroes, big strikeouts, big hits, tension, pain and suffering ... and joy.
And memories.
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Find the pic, if its out there, of Miggy and his wtf look when they took out Nova. That was awesome.
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Mlive..
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Fister in the first inning. article from Mlive.
NEW YORK -- Don Kelly and Delmon Young hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning and right-hander Doug Fister has allowed one run in five innings pitched as the Detroit Tigers lead the host New York Yankees, 3-1, through five innings in Game 5 of the best-of-five ALDS.
Victor Martinez hit an RBI single in the fourth inning off CC Sabathia to score Austin Jackson from second. Sabathia, the Yankees
NEW YORK -- Don Kelly and Delmon Young hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning and right-hander Doug Fister has allowed one run in five innings pitched as the Detroit Tigers lead the host New York Yankees, 3-1, through five innings in Game 5 of the best-of-five ALDS.
Victor Martinez hit an RBI single in the fourth inning off CC Sabathia to score Austin Jackson from second. Sabathia, the Yankees
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The new batman and Robin.... Don Freaking Kelly and Delmon Young.
NEW YORK -- The Detroit Tigers have had a real good season.
Now they have a chance to make it great.
Delmon Young and Don Kelly homered and Tigers pitchers came through when it counted
NEW YORK -- The Detroit Tigers have had a real good season.
Now they have a chance to make it great.
Delmon Young and Don Kelly homered and Tigers pitchers came through when it counted
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Detroit news.
Tigers punch ticket to ALCS behind early home runs, bullpen
Tom Gage/ The Detroit News
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Tigers punch ticket to ALCS behind early home runs, bullpen
Tom Gage/ The Detroit News
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Fister first pitch tonight.
Lynn Henning
Tigers' tense victory is payback for past heartbreaks
New York Anniversaries are peculiar. They more often are celebrations, but they also can be commemorations of a date sad and bad.
Two years ago Thursday night, on Oct. 6, 2009, the Tigers played the Twins in the Metrodome. It was a one-game playoff showdown after the Tigers and Twins played to a dead heat during the regular season.
And it was a glorious game. Glorious for baseball, which saw four lead changes in a 12-inning game the Twins pulled out 6-5.
But it was as devastating, as cruel, as heartbreaking as any defeat the Tigers had sustained since 1967's final day of the regular season cost the Tigers a shot at a World Series they won the next year in a kind of redemptive, vengeful six-month party.
Thursday evening at Yankee Stadium, precisely two years to the date, the Tigers played as if the gods owed them one for that agonizing October night 24 months ago at Minneapolis.
They won a baseball game against the Yankees at a public cauldron known as Yankee Stadium. They won, 3-2, in the fifth game of a divisional series that puts them four victories from a shot at the World Series.
And they won it in a fashion as tense, as filled with baseball nuance and nobility, as that ache of an evening they endured at the Metrodome in 2009.
In its assembly and beauty, Thursday night's game was emblematic of the Tigers' entire 2011 season.
They pitched and played artful baseball. They took a 3-0 lead. They cheated death a couple of times in the late innings.
But they won. They won with their calling card, solid starting pitching, a shut-'em-down back end bullpen, and with just enough firepower to beat an immensely talented Yankees team that had won more games than any other American League club.
Earning respect
Now they head off to Texas for the beginning of a potential seven-game ALCS against the Rangers.
They will leave as not only winners but also as a new, respected member of baseball's elite.
They beat the Yankees with power and precision Thursday, using an opening artillery round
Lynn Henning
Tigers' tense victory is payback for past heartbreaks
New York Anniversaries are peculiar. They more often are celebrations, but they also can be commemorations of a date sad and bad.
Two years ago Thursday night, on Oct. 6, 2009, the Tigers played the Twins in the Metrodome. It was a one-game playoff showdown after the Tigers and Twins played to a dead heat during the regular season.
And it was a glorious game. Glorious for baseball, which saw four lead changes in a 12-inning game the Twins pulled out 6-5.
But it was as devastating, as cruel, as heartbreaking as any defeat the Tigers had sustained since 1967's final day of the regular season cost the Tigers a shot at a World Series they won the next year in a kind of redemptive, vengeful six-month party.
Thursday evening at Yankee Stadium, precisely two years to the date, the Tigers played as if the gods owed them one for that agonizing October night 24 months ago at Minneapolis.
They won a baseball game against the Yankees at a public cauldron known as Yankee Stadium. They won, 3-2, in the fifth game of a divisional series that puts them four victories from a shot at the World Series.
And they won it in a fashion as tense, as filled with baseball nuance and nobility, as that ache of an evening they endured at the Metrodome in 2009.
In its assembly and beauty, Thursday night's game was emblematic of the Tigers' entire 2011 season.
They pitched and played artful baseball. They took a 3-0 lead. They cheated death a couple of times in the late innings.
But they won. They won with their calling card, solid starting pitching, a shut-'em-down back end bullpen, and with just enough firepower to beat an immensely talented Yankees team that had won more games than any other American League club.
Earning respect
Now they head off to Texas for the beginning of a potential seven-game ALCS against the Rangers.
They will leave as not only winners but also as a new, respected member of baseball's elite.
They beat the Yankees with power and precision Thursday, using an opening artillery round
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Free press.. Move on to Texas.... JB was outstanding..
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Don Kelly is warming up to me.
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DY after his homer in the first inning... Free press.
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DK's first inning trot.....Hell yeah!!!!
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
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NY Post LOL....
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NY post... Joe Girardi makes JB take of the band-aid.... Then JB pitches his f-ing heat out....
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NY post photo bucket.
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Last out... NY post. decent photo bucket.
http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/sports/yankees/yankees_lose_alds_game_to_tigers_tRuZ1cQiyxH9Y88HFj5CsO?photo_num=14
http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/sports/yankees/yankees_lose_alds_game_to_tigers_tRuZ1cQiyxH9Y88HFj5CsO?photo_num=14
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NY daily News... Bye bye steroid boy!!!!
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Kelly after his Homer... NY daily news photo bucket...
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseba....ds_ga me_5.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseba....ds_ga me_5.html
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Great MLB photo bucket including DK swing at the plate..
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_10_06_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=recap_away&c_id=det#gid=2011_10_06_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=photos
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_10_06_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=recap_away&c_id=det#gid=2011_10_06_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=photos
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