Posted on 10/17/2004 3:49:35 PM PDT by Neets
Yankees look for sweep; Astros try to pull even
October 17, 2004 BRISTOL, Connecticut (Ticker) - After a record-breaking rout against the Boston Red Sox in Game Three, the New York Yankees are on the verge of their 40th World Series appearance.
The Yankees - and the two teams combined - set a League Championship Series record for runs scored in a 19-8 rout of the Red Sox on Saturday, taking a three games to none lead. Of the 25 instances when a team has taken such a best-of-seven series lead previously, it has closed out the series in four games 20 times.
The chances of New York advancing to the World Series for the seventh time in nine years are very good considering no baseball team has ever come back from a three-game playoff series deficit. New York will give the ball to Orlando Hernandez, who jumped out to an 8-0 start this year before shoulder problems resulted in a finish of 0-2 with an 8.03 ERA. In his one start against Boston this season, "El Duque" pitched just three innings due to a rain delay.
Boston will pin its survival hopes on 14-game winner Derek Lowe, who was moved up from a potential Game Five start after the Red Sox used scheduled Game Four starter Tim Wakefield out of the bullpen Saturday. Lowe has a career 3.50 ERA in the postseason but was saddled with a 9.28 ERA against New York during the regular season.
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he's leaving him in - oh geez.
well, it shows some level of consistency.
Not Good, Not Heredia!
Torre and Stot musta remembered Heredia choking...
not sure what Torre was doing here - he let his judgement about trying to get Duque the win get the best of him.
I'd bring in Sturtze right now.
definitely, this is getting like grady little last year. I know we are up 3-0 in this series, but you just can't throw this game away.
NOT getting Cabrera killed us.
And the Red Sox win the pennant, the Red Sox win the Pennant. Oh, they just got 2 runs. Nevermind.
Gotta get SOMEBODY else in...Duque's done.
I've been in Concord all day. I picked a good time to get home!
I just muted Buck/McCarner/Leiter for better luck.
And it worked!
he was lucky to get out of that being down just 1 run.
McCarver, that is.
3 runs.
Heh!
Torre's usually pretty good about being unsentimental like that. Don't know what he was thinking there.
Torre has a big cushion, and a lot of offensive firepower in a small ballpark. He is saving his pitchers. He's not the one in the must win situation. If the sox are close in this game they will have to use everyone from the bullpen, and Torre would like that.
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