Something I also learned/realized tonight. Damn West Coast teams…
They are calling it a “partial dislocation.”
“We’ll know more in the next couple of days,” Roberts said. “The strength was great. The range of motion good, so we’re encouraged. But obviously I can’t speculate because don’t get the scans yet. So once we have the scans, we’ll know more.”
Did you watch Game 1?
Yeah, but that was a Yankee pitcher who isn’t as good as thought.
From Bill Plaschke’s column in the L.A. Times today:
Seems a bit over-the-top after two nail-biting wins. Also:
Reasonable assessment.
I’m rooting for the Dodgers, but these were close games (as mentioned), and baseball to me seems to be more unpredictable and volatile in terms of individual games that anything can happen. Hell, the Red Sox came back down 0-3 against the Yanks in the 2004 ALCS. The Cubs came back down 3-1 in the WS not all that long ago. I wouldn’t say either team is in a class of their own.
“It was a real cliff dweller”. I thought Yogi Berra or Casey Stengel said that but seems it was Mets manager Wes Westrum.
Yeah, Plaschke is greatly exaggerating there. The Dodgers were one out away from losing Game 1. Had Freeman hit that ball just a little bit weaker, it could have been a fly out instead of a home run, and Yankees lead series 1-0.
Then, likewise, in the ninth inning of the second game, the Yankees had the bases loaded. If Trevino had hit that last ball a little bit harder, it would have been a grand slam instead of a fly out. The Yankees very likely would then have won and taken a 2-0 series lead.
Both teams have some 3-4 future HOFers…and LA doesn’t have Kershaw. (Which is probably a good thing.) NY could easily win the next two.
The impact of a single player on a baseball game is being wildly overstated here. It doesn’t change the odds that much.
Yeah, Ohtani is 1-8 with a walk in the first two games. He’s scored one run with no ribbies. Lots of guys could put up those numbers at the DH spot.
So if the Yankees lost Judge for the rest of the Series It’d be no biggie because he hasn’t done much at the plate yet?
Ohtani and Judge are both players who could turn the course of a game with one swing. Losing your top hitter in a short series isn’t insignificant.
Note that Ohtani* has been medically cleared to play in game 3. Effectiveness will be a question.
*Some Yankees fans showed real class in reacting to his injury.
Shohei Ohtani has a .260 batting average with 13 hits, 3 home runs, 10 RBIs and 13 runs scored in 13 games in the postseason.
Two games is a pretty small sample size.
My point was that LA won those two games with sub-par performances by Ohtani.
By all rights, it should be 1-1 series. Bringing in a guy who hasn’t pitched in weeks and weeks in a crucial situation was not a brilliant move. I’m for Cortes getting DFA’d. Boone has been too quick to bring in pinch runners, when he pulled Torres for a PR I didn’t agree. Torres isn’t Chisholm, but he isn’t Rizzo or Stanton, either. As always, managers over-manage in the post season.
DFA Cortes? That’s a wee bit extreme. Inexpensive innings-eaters don’t grow on trees. That was Boone’s screw up. Everyone who follows the Yankees knows it should have been Hill in that situation. I still can’t understand why he chose Nestor.
Cortes is a 29-year-old pitcher who pitched well this season and is under control next year for a very reasonable price and you want to release him because he gave up one home run?
Not for one home run, he’s been quite ineffective for most of the season.
All right they’re now getting ready to go at the Bronx.
Leslie Odom Jr. aka Aaron Burr, Sir, does the anthem so of course no problems with this part tonight.
OK…here we go… 
LET’S GO YANKEES!