So sayeth this article. The Yankees destroyed the Red Sox 19-8 in Game 3 of the ALCS. The Yankees now lead the Division Series 3-0. No team has come back from a 3-0 deficit in the history of the MLB Post-Season.
Hideki Matsui went 5-for-6 with 2 homeruns, 2 doubles and a single; he also scored 5 runs and batted in 5 runs, tying his ALCS record once again.
Not to suggest this was like a softball game, but the Yankees celebrated their 19-8 victory by going to TGIFriday's for buffalo wings while Ruben Sierra has to bring a 30-pack tonight for striking out in the fourth inning. (Based on their baserunning, the Red Sox evidently did their drinking before the game.) What a beating. The Yankees had 12 hits, 13 runs, 12 RBI, four home runs and five doubles -- and that was just from the No. 2-4 hitters in the lineup, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui.
Think about that for a minute. Three guys had a dozen hits and scored 13 runs. In a playoff game. What, did they get themselves back in a groove after Thursday's travel day and Friday's rainout by visiting children's hospitals and promising to hit home runs for all the sick kids? "I think it's time to break out those 'Bronx Bombers' t-shirts again," an impressed Reggie Jackson said. "These guys are like a hurricane. Hurricane Yankee."
For once, Reggie isn't laying it on thick. No one has pounded the ball like this without Glenn Close watching from the stands and Robert Duvall typing away in the pressbox. Boston fans were so stunned by the onslaught that they began leaving the ballpark in droves during the sixth inning and those that remained could only offer up weak, ineffectual chants of "You Took Steroids" to Sheffield.
Yeah, it's historic, yeah it's great. I'm a happy man. It never gets old.
- Art Neuro
2 comments:
Bosox have the NYY where they want them. NYY can't win from behind now!
LOL, that;s hilarious. :)
Geting to a 2 game deficit was bad because of the straight odds of having to win 4 from 5. Now it's *can't lose a single game in 4*, and that's a straight 1/16 chance, even if it was a 50/50 proposition for each game assuming they're evenly matched as pre-series predictions had it.
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