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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Ok...well, I hope you can last long enough to catch at least a few innings.
6 games??????????????????????
Shortage of ref's up there or what???
LOL there too.
What suxx about a Red Sox / Skankee series is one of them is going to win
The Red Sox haven't won not because of the Babe but because they are being punished for the Kennedys, Hopefully if and when the Yankees win the Hillary curse will continue and they get blown out in the World Series
WHADDAYAMEAN! I'm still watching the Cardinal game!
Ah!! I see...well go shower (sniff, sniff what IS that smell?) and see how many innings you can put in till the sand man comes and gets you.
Don't bet your house, nor FReepin' privileges on it.
Yea, i hear the game is 5-5 now???
GO ASTROS!!!!!!!!!!
Will do when the girl child vacates the bath room....
Who wants a president who can't reach home plate with a thrown baseball?
HA HA HA..it's happening to YOU now!!!
Mine has moved out...sort of...she just forgot to pack her room up and take everything with her.
He has got to be the most athletically disinclined individual i have ever seen.
Sorry...I just had to go in the basement and change a water filter for my wife. I know my place. She is a Fairfield County girl with an ex dad and ex brother who were Yankee fans. She feels my pain as well.
See?? at least you aren't alone in your pain.
6-5, bases loaded, 1 out, bot 7
Fans of the LOGO. Can't be a fan of the team because it changes in a flash. Still waiting for George to enter the visiting teams dugout during a game and buy a pitcher in the middle of the game.
Logo and bandwagon fans, have to be associated with a winner. No one goes to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, they go to an event. They scoreboard tell them when, how, and what to cheer, all for 350$. Each player has their own "theme song" when they come to bat! HAHAHAH
BTW This throw over to first base is was brought to you by CITIBANK.
Cardinal or Astro lead?
bot 7 = hou batting
no matter, inning ending dp
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