Sale was robbed of the MVP. 2 innings to 1 for Mo. With no noteworthy offensive performance Sale is the no brainier choice. It’s not a lifetime achievement award, Rivera will get that in about 5 years.
Like most or all of the never defensively elite Jeter’s gold gloves that he was given for his BAT and fame, more undeserving hardware for a Yankee.
As for Leyland he’s always rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t like him putting Rivera in the 8th when he had the lead, if you wanted to give him a honor he actually deserved it was to close out the game, you could always bring him in the 8th with runners on in the unlikely circumstance that Nathan got in trouble.
His only agenda was getting home field in the hopes his team makes the series, understandable I guess but that brings up whether home field oughta be the prize of this game.
Leyland didn’t manage as he would a normal game. He said he would rather play with the team he got and play the whole game with it but everybody wants to see their players play.
And the only RBI hit was from Jason Kipnis, the only Indian to appear in the game. :)