The day for memorials. A day to remember a great tragedy.
There was a rumour that President Donald Trump would throw out first pitch. He didn’t, but he did attend the game and drew uproarious cheers from the fans, even at one point drowning out the singing of “God Bless America”.
But I am here to talk about baseball, so let’s turn our attention to the game.
Continue readingSo, on September the 9th, the Yankees went into the game against the Detroit Tigers looking limp and surely enough they were demolished by their opponents. The game ended 12-2, and now they desperately needed to bounce back – in order to even the series, and give them the best opportunity of going into the post-season playoffs as division winners.
One of the few highlights of yesterday’s game had been the starting pitcher, Will Warren and indeed it was when the Yankees had to substitute him and go into the bullpen that things really began to fall apart – the relievers (Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr) conceding 9 runs in one inning.
So today, with one of their strongest starters Carlos Rodon on the mound, they seemed to have a great chance.
Continue readingThe Yankees additional reward for taking the series against Toronto 2-1 was a day off on the 8th. This was mainly because of the timetabling issue of making sure that the Yankees had a game on 9/11 to enable appropriate commemorations of the dreadful events that took place on that day in 2001.
Tonight’s game was the first of three against the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers are ahead of the division in the American League Central and more wins helps them cruise towards the division title and clear of the second place Cleveland Guardians.
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