Skip to main content

Yankees Show Little Punch, Face Dodgers Brooms in Game 4

 DODGERS 4 - YANKEE 2 

The New York Yankees have their backs up against the proverbial wall now following a 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series. 

Ever since Freddie Freeman launched a grand slam into the right field bleachers at Dodgers Stadium on Friday night, the Yankees have looked totally lost as a baseball club. They can't hit; struggle in the field, and their pitching isn't up to snuff. 

Giancarlo Stanton out at the plate. Getty Images. 

By the seventh inning of Game 3 on Monday night, you could hear a pin drop at Yankee Stadium. By the eighth inning, fans were starting to hit the exits. The Yankees had nothing, and everyone knows it. 

While the Yankees had a good season this year, and got to the Fall Classic for the first time in 15 years, they aren't even close to being as good as Yankees teams of the past who have made it this far into October. 

Let's be honest the Yankees got here thanks to a soft American League slate in the postseason.  As Michael Kay pointed out on the YES Postgame, the Yankees won with their B-game against Kansas City and Cleveland. That won't work now.

Yankee Stadium was ready to explode on Monday. Derek Jeter threw out the first pitch, and fans were ready to go wild in the Bronx for the first time in a very long time. 

Then that guy, Freddie Freeman came up again, and cracked a two-run bomb off the facade of the second deck in right to give LA a 2-0 lead in the first inning. The air came out of the Yankees balloon. The fans knew it. The players played like it. 

There were also the little things like Giancarlo Stanton getting thrown out at home plate in the fourth inning on a base hit by Anthony Volpe that kept the Yankees off the board. 

Or Aaron Judge getting a little too much underneath a pitch, and sending it to shallow left when everyone, including John Sterling thought it was a homer off the end of the bat. 

Judge went 0-for-3; he's hitting .091 this postseason. Just not good enough. 



As for LA, their starting pitcher for Game 3, Walker Buehler dialed it back to 2021 when he was a Cy Young candidate, blanking the Bombers over five solid innings. The Dodgers pen did the rest. 

Sure Alex Verdugo hit a two-run homer for the Yankees in the ninth, but all that did was cancel the shutout. The Yankees never really had a chance, and never really had much fight. 

Now the Bombers face the prospects of getting swept in the Fall Classic. The Yankees haven't been swept in the World Series since the Cincinnati Reds did it to them in 1976. Do the Yankees have enough fight in them to at least stave off elimination for one night, and get the ball to Gerrit Cole in Game 5? We'll find out soon. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jets, Dolphins and Patriots Playoff Breakdown

Here are the formuli that could get the Jets into and out of the playoff party this season: 1) If the Jets win against Seattle and Miami, they win the AFC East based on a better conference record (8-4) than the New England Patriots, even if New England wins out as well. 2) If the Patriots win out and the Dolphins win out and finish at 11-5, the Jets would be 10-6, or 9-7, and probably out of the playoffs. Both New England and Miami would make the playoffs, with the Dolphins as a divison winner and the Patriots as a wild card. The Patriots make the postseason if Baltimore loses one of its final two games. 3) If the Patriots win out and the Dolphins and Jets split, then the Patriots win the AFC East. The Jets will have to hope that they beat Miami to win that tie-breaker and, further, hope that they have a better conference record than the Baltimore Ravens in order to clinch the sixth seed. 4) If the Patriots and Ravens win out and the Dolphins and Jets split their final two games, then ...
8 comments
Read more

Is Aaron Glenn in Danger of Getting Fired?

 According to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio there is a "chance"   that Jets head coach Aaron Glenn could be fired at seasons end.  While Florio doesn't site any sources, the rumor has caught fire the last two days. The question is would it make sense? Let's examine this for a second?  Why it Makes Sense:  Glenn has not been great in his first year as Head Coach of this team. The talent has taken a major step backwards, granted two of those talented players were traded away in Sauce Gardner to Indianapolis and Quinnen Williams to Dallas.  The decision he and GM Darren Mougey made to give Justin Fields a two year deal proved to be a horrible mistake, and Glenn stuck with Fields for far too long before pulling the plug following the Jets loss to the Patriots on a Thursday night in mid November.  Glenn gave now former Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks too much power to run the defense, and the players couldn't stand Wilks. Reports indicated this week af...
Post a Comment
Read more

Same Ol' Jets! Gang Green Dropped by Ravens

 RAVENS 24 - JETS 9  In short the opener to the 2022 season for the New York Jets was a complete and utter disaster.  A team that came into the season with the promise of better days ahead, a team that had taken on so many kudos in the off-season for what so many in the media had claimed was an impeccable off-season and draft, came out flat as a pancake when it mattered the most.  If this was a debut of what is to come for the Jets in 2022, you better start preparing your 2023 draft boards.  Sunday's 24-9 loss wasn't just a defeat at the hands of a better team, it was a total indictment of the Jets current predicament.  The Jets offensive line, which has been battered and beaten this summer with the losses of Meckhi Becton and Duane Brown looked like a sieve on Sunday. Joe Flacco, who is not exactly fleet of foot, was under siege all afternoon. The fact he came out of Sunday's game having been sacked only three times was a miracle in itself.  George Fa...
Post a Comment
Read more