Posted on 10/03/2010 2:40:23 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Jed Lowrie hit two home runs and knocked in three as the Red Sox handed the Yankees an 8-4 loss on the final day of the season to deny New York a chance at a second straight American League East title.
...While Boston (89-73) is sitting out postseason play for the first time since 2006, it cost rival New York (95-67) a shot at wrapping up homefield advantage throughout the AL playoffs, as the Yankees needed a win and a Tampa Bay loss Sunday to do so.
The two teams came into the final day of the regular season with identical records but the Rays won out for the division by way of a 10-8 advantage in the head-to-head series, saddling the Yanks with wild card status.
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Good work, Sox.
Damn Yankees
Anyway, it ain't easy being a Yankee's fan, I'll tell you right now.
But it is worth it.
Yeah, good work. You didn't even place so go break the kneecaps of your competitors. That's the spirit!
The best part about being a Yanks fan is watching the haters gnash their teeth in misdirected anger...
I’m a Yanks fan but they have stumbled into the post season
whereas a team like the Phillies have peaked at the end. Timing is everything-—tough to come out on top every year even for the most successful of teams.
Yes it is. It's called being a spoiler. Since my Dodgers tanked this year, I cheer for any NL team who can beat the hated Va-Giants. That's the way it works.
I kind of like the way it brings the Napoleon complex in them.
At least the Rays deserve the praise.
Interesting how all four AL playoff teams have been horrible the last two weeks.
Great news.
MLB site shows the Yankees as the wild card.
How sweet it is.
Now,on with the show !!!!!
“That’s the spirit! “
That’s pro sports.
New York Yankees 2010 AL East Champion T shirts will...NOT... be available! Sox beat em and besides, Rays wound up winning 3-2
in extras. So the team that half-fills their stadium beats out the Yanks by 1 full game at season’s end
Yanks-Twins
Rays-Rangers
ABD: Anyone But Democrats
ABY: Anyone But Yankees
FYI
The Red Sox has about as much to do with it as the Patriots did.
Late games in the season can be very deceptive since you have expanded rosters and if a team has more or less wrapped up a spot the pressure is off and often top players are rested. I often liken them to spring training games except for the few that do have an impact on the playoff picture. I really hate that we have lost a lot of the pennant drives of yesteryear since the wild card was introduced. More than anything it has made September often an anticlimax rather than what it used to be. The expanded round of playoffs doesn’t really add much except push the final game of the world series close or even into Novemeber.
EXCUSE ME...THE YANKEES DENIED THEMSELVES.......to many men left on base.....to many close losses.....it was not the red socks it was poor playing.
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