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Tigers 3, Yankees 2. Detroit innovations in order to match the particular Texas Rangers inside the American League Championship Series.

The Yankees go home, obtaining used up above $200 million to earn the AL Eastern Division, however going no further.

Some of you will be thinking, "Explain this specific bullshit." Okay, I will.

Top 5 Reasons that Yankees Lost this American League Division Series

5. CC Sabathia . A function inside the rain-interrupted Game just one don't create a great deal of the difference. A weak performance in Game three or more produced each of the big difference in the world. A run with his simple overall look throughout Game a few produced all of the difference from the world.

Like Andy Pettitte within 2001, including David Wells within 2003, including Kevin Brown within 2004, just like Randy Johnson within 2006 in addition to 2006, like Chien-Ming Wang around 2007, he identified a terrible of a time to be able to have a bad run.

Fortunately, such as Pettitte along with Wells, although in contrast to Brown, Johnson and also Wang, he has helped your Yankees earn a World Series, therefore I can not be too difficult on him. He's nonetheless your ace. He's nevertheless some sort of horse. This time, the horse played a poor race.

4. Ted Barrett. Tonight's home plate umpire had a ugly strike zone, presenting the particular Tigers strikes with pitches that have been low, and also on pitches that were outside, as well as squeezing the particular Yankee pitchers.

For your minute year within a row, the Yankee time of year ended with a strikeout regarding Alex Rodriguez. This time, A-Rod needed the actual bat out of his shoulder along with couple of strikes. But don't guilt him: The first 2 pitches he needed were out of the strike zone, plus Barrett identified as these strikes anyway, the actual bastard. Whether he is a lying down bastard and also a strong incompetent one, you could possibly choose with regard to yourself. Either way, this individual have to for no reason umpire within a further postseason game.

But it's idiotic at fault that officiating. Unless you might be Arsenal Football Club, who get screwed through referees many of the time. And the Yankees may not be The Arsenal. So let's move ahead into a a great deal more culpable culprit.

3. The Bats Went Cold. The Yankees have scored in search of goes within the first 7 innings of your series. Taking out and about that eighth inning of Game 4, inside the very last 37 innings of your string they scored 11 runs. That's an normal of 2.68 owns for each game, and also you never earn postseason series together with that will kind of run production.