Game 5, American League Division Series: Tigers at Yankees
by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 7:30 PM EDT
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PrintTonight's the night -- starting at 8 pm, we'll get to see if the Tigers can advance past the Yankees into the ALCS, giving us the first season since 2006 -- the last time the Tigers were in the ALCS -- without an AL East team in the championship round.
Doug Fister, acquired from the Mariners at the trade deadline, goes up against rookie Ivan Nova.
Besides Cy Young candidate Justin Verlander, Fister has been Detroit's second-best starter, posting an ERA of 1.79 thanks to an 11.4 K/BB ratio in his 70 frames with the Tigers. While that overstates his ability, his season totals are also impressive, with a 2.83 ERA, league-low 0.5 homers per nine among qualifiers, and a K/BB ratio of 4 thanks to 146 punch outs against 37 free passes. He's not your conventional idea for a must-win start thanks to the low strikeout totals, but if his control is working for him, he's a dangerous pitcher to face.
Nova posted an ERA of 3.70 in his rookie season, but a look at his peripherals suggests that, while he was solid overall, luck was on his side: his 1.7 K/BB ratio is lower than Daisuke Matsuzaka's career rate, if that tells you anything. Opponents hit just .624 on batted-balls classified as line drives this year, compared to the league average of .713 (that's 29 percent better than the average). A little less luck in tonight's start, combined with a solid performance by Fister, might be enough to end the Yankees' season.
To Nova's credit, he has been better since he was demoted to the minors and recalled at the end of July, posting a 3.18 ERA with a 2.4 K/BB ratio in his last 73 frames.
Of course, saying that is easy enough, but Nova's kept up his luck all year -- one more night of it is a distinct possibility, and that's all New York would need to advance.
CC Sabathia is supposedly available for the Yankees in relief, while Justin Verlander is not. We'll see if each manager keeps with that plan, though, as the season is on the line, after all.
I would say, "Let's go [whoever you're rooting for]", but let's be honest, you want the Tigers to win, yeah?
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He'll still bitch about everything
he’ll just do it with money in his wallet.
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by 808BostonSportsFan on Oct 6, 2011 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Congrats, sir.
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Good to hear
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So I obviously would love to see the Tigers win tonight, but I was wondering
Who is the main rooting interest for everyone around here? I have certain reasons why I’m hoping Texas or Philadelphia wins, personally.. Actually, I’d be ok with anybody winning (Tampa was included in that) outside of the Yankees. Or, preferably the Cardinals. Because I do not like the Cardinals. Figured it’d be an interesting topic.
Diamondbacks or Tigers.
I do not like the Brewers, hate the Cardinals, Phillies, and Yankees for various reasons. Glad the Raycists are out.
Mine
Tigers
Brewers
DBacks
Rangers
Cardinals
Phillies
Yankees/Rays
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Brewers
DBacks
Tigers/Rangers
Cardinals
Phillies
Rays
Yankees
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Brewers or Tigers
I would prefer that the Phillies and Yankees lose badly. I love the Eagles and Union, otherwise fuck everything in that city, especially my fellow fans.
"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.
I have no real preference at this point
I’m basically rooting for “Not Phillies”
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Kind of curious.
I didn’t see how he was pitching, but his pitch count wasn’t high, he had 3Ks to 0 BBs and 3 hits, of course two were long balls.
And hughes well.. really sucks.
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let's just hope it backfires on them.
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by 808BostonSportsFan on Oct 6, 2011 8:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Wait... Hughes is out already?
Wow… talk about micromanagement.
"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.
Or is WAY too far inside his own head for this early in the game. Hughes was pitching fine.
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Joe Girardi
manage hard always
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Hey, look, the guy we should've got can keep the Yankees down.
I am sad…But…also pleased?
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Not much
The Tigers gave up a few mid-levels. Around the same as we did for Bedard.
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Well...
The Tigers gave up prospects they wanted to keep (that the Mariners really like). The Red Sox got rid of guys they weren’t going to put on the 40-man, and had the Dodgers give up the player Seattle really wanted.
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions
he has not looked good
he struck out a few but he gave up what turned out to be the decisive run and just looked tired
"Play Hard Always"
CC trying to pull a Pedro circa 1999 (or close to it)
Can he do it?
Nobody will ever, ever do that again
Plus, leadoff double alone kills it.
Good god, what a game that was.
Another chance for a former Sox to be a hero.
(Also, Jim Leyland’s lineup-making skills suck)
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More likely they missed the sweet face of Little Victor
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions
They should sign him back. His kid, I mean.
So the Red Sox can regain their innocence
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe
But letting him go was the right thing to do. There wouldn’t have been any place to out him with Gonzo, Youk and Papi on the team. Plus Victor couldn’t catch anymore really.
In addition
Giving him as many years as he was asking for to catch would have been a bad idea. He’s in the right place as a DH in Detroit.
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Good job batting Ordonez ahead of Avila, Leyland.
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My point is
Criticizing Leyland’s lineup when it’s worked out shows that he seems to have organized it right, no? Give me the blind squirrel stuff if you like, but he put Don Kelly in the lineup and he hit a home run and has been hot for the series, and so has Ordonez, while Avila has been ice cold. If he played them all year, that’s stupid, but he can afford to analyze their production on a short-term scale, and if he sees that Avila isn’t swinging the bat well, he can afford to shake things up a little.
Criticizing his success because it didn’t match up to your ideas of what he should have done seems spiteful to me.
Wow
Seriously? GIDP on a pitch out of the K zone?
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Only an inning and a third for CC?
Not sure what Girardi is doing here. It is an elimination game in which they are behind (at the moment).
I do love Max Scherzer
But man, when he is off his game, it is ugly.
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by Marc Normandin on Oct 6, 2011 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I feel obligated to make this comment
Scherzer can be ugly but few can do off their game ugly like this guy:
"Play Hard Always"
Oily sweat hard always
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by nuthinboutnuthin on Oct 7, 2011 9:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Wow
What a clutch strikeout.
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argh
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by 808BostonSportsFan on Oct 6, 2011 10:54 PM EDT reply actions
My god
This is so tense. : (
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Omfg
Benoit is a clutch beast.
I learned how to make a sig just so it can say "DFA Darnell MacDonald". That means it must happen.
He DID walk in a run.
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by Ben Buchanan on Oct 6, 2011 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow
Benoit one out away…come on, man.
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OMG
In Yankee Stadium that would have been gone!
Oh wait..
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by Tai on Oct 6, 2011 11:28 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
eeks.
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by 808BostonSportsFan on Oct 6, 2011 11:40 PM EDT reply actions
You can always find solace in this
Happy Yankees Elimination Day!!
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yes!!!
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by 808BostonSportsFan on Oct 6, 2011 11:42 PM EDT reply actions
Rofl Yankees
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Thank you detroit
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by Dustin's #1 Fan on Oct 6, 2011 11:44 PM EDT reply actions
Oh A-Rod, you're .111 series average makes all the ladies swoon.
Thanks for the choke job douche.
There is a god
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by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Oct 6, 2011 11:46 PM EDT reply actions
I'm late to the party
funny how A-Rod always seems to be the series-ending out
YOUZA! YOUZA! YOUZA!
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F-you, you stinkin’ Yankee and Ray fans!!!!!!!!!!
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by mc34 on Oct 6, 2011 11:49 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
As long as the Yankees don't win
It ain’t all bad! NowI can enjoy watching the rest of the playoffs.
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by nuthinboutnuthin on Oct 7, 2011 9:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Well the collapse was bad
It would have been a hundred times worse if the AL East teams had success. Neither did and it is now somewhat okay.
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It's definitely not "Okay"
but it’s better than it could have been
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Yankees and Rays out 1st round
AL Beast ….more like AL Least, amirite guys?
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