![]() ![]() ![]() Peralta said he had known he would be capable of pitching a third game in a row the “moment I woke up.” His day-to-day recovery process seems to give him an advantage he claimed he would be ready to go for Game 5, which would be his fourth day in a row. “Right away, he said he was good, wanted the ball, so I was going to go to him in a short spurt,” manager Aaron Boone said after the 4-2 victory in the American League Division Series Game 4 on Sunday. In this instance, the Yankees wound up reaping the rewards. Burn your relievers three nights in a row in August and suffer the consequences in October. The guidance that governs pitcher workloads in the regular season is meant to preserve some of their energy for the time when their contributions matter most. Rules are made to be broken in the postseason, though. The Yankees rules, specifically, which have firm guidelines on reliever usage, specifically that they rarely if ever be used three days in a row. of novices insofar as when he takes the bump at Yankee Stadium, he’ll be doing so for the first time in a playoff game.ĬLEVELAND - Wandy Peralta walked out of the visiting bullpen and broke all the rules. He’s not a hard thrower, but a good overhand curve and the ability to locate have allowed him to strike out an average of eight hitters per nine innings in his four big-league seasons. He is 27 and not a rookie, and in fact he won 12 games for Cleveland in 2021. The starting pitcher for the most important game of this unimaginable, brilliant Cleveland baseball season will be a man named Aaron Civale. On Saturday in Game 3 against New York, Guardians rookies accounted for seven hits, tied for the second most in a playoff game in major-league history. The Guardians are the first team in major-league history to play at least 17 rookies in a season and win a division (or pennant). These guys are all rookies, playing for the youngest team in baseball, which is in a winner-take-all Game 5 against the Yankees with a trip to the American League Championship Series on the line. Or brings Cody Morris out of the bullpen. Or sends Will Brennan up there to pinch hit. When Terry Francona starts Gabriel Arias at first base. Two rainouts in this series pushed the ALDS schedule right up against the start of the ALCS, so the Yankees will not get any rest before Game 1 in Houston Wednesday night with Justin Verlander and Taillon the probable pitchers.ĬLEVELAND - To the outsider, the non-Clevelander, the I-could-care-less-what-the-Browns-did-now-er, the Guardians are a team of “who?” That trio allowed just five baserunners in the final four frames. The Yankees turned the ball over to Jonathan Loaisiga, Clay Holmes and Wandy Peralta to lock down the final four innings. Cortes responded by going five innings on just 61 pitches, allowing only one run on a sacrifice fly from Jose Ramirez in the third inning. Judge's home run was his fourth in his career in an elimination game, which is the most in postseason history.īecause of Monday night's rainout, it allowed Yankees Manager Aaron Boone to start Nestor Cortes, Game 2's starter, on three days rest instead of Jameson Taillon. Guardians starter Aaron Civale lasted just five batters in the first before manager Terry Francona pulled him having just gotten one out, leaving Cleveland's bullpen to get the last 26 outs of the game.Īaron Judge added his second home run of the series in the second inning pushing the Yankees' lead to 4-0. Stanton's blast tied him with Carlos Beltran for the most home runs (11) in a player's first 23 career postseason games. ![]() New York jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning off a three-run opposite field home run by Giancarlo Stanton. The Guardians only scratched across one run on eight hits in their 5-1 loss to the Yankees. NEW YORK - The Yankees and Astros, for the third time in five seasons, meet once again for the American League pennant.Ĭleveland's BABIP luck and timely hitting, which they rode to a 2-1 series lead in the ALDS versus New York, ran out in a winner-take-all Game 5 Tuesday night. ![]()
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