Tigers roar as Bombers yanked
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October 8, 2011, Saturday
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The Detroit Tigers pounced early and held on to beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Thursday to reach the American League championship series against the Texas Rangers.
The victory in New York gave Detroit a 3-2 winning margin in their best-of-five divisional playoff series and sent the Yankees, who had the best regular season record, into the offseason.
Don Kelly and Delmon Young blasted back-to-back home runs in the first inning off starter and loser Ivan Nova and three relievers finished up for Tigers starter Doug Fister to secure the victory. Jose Valverde, who was a perfect 49-for-49 in save chances during the regular season, notched the save.
"The Yankees are so good that I would be lying if I said it didn't give me a little extra satisfaction to be able to do it here in the fifth game," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland.
"I don't mean that disrespectfully, I mean that respectfully. It gave me a great thrill to be able to do it here in Yankee Stadium."
The Central Division champions Tigers pitched superbly in the clutch as they kept the Bronx Bombers from scoring with the bases loaded and one-out in the fourth inning.
They later gave up just one run with the bases full and one out in the seventh.
"These guys have pitched all year long, Detroit," New York manager Joe Girardi said after 11 Yankee base-runners were left stranded in the game. "I look at this game and it was one hit, maybe one sac fly. That was the difference. They made some huge pitches when they had to."
Nova left after two innings due to some tightening in his forearm and the Yankees paraded in six relievers, including Game 3 starter CC Sabathia, who made his first relief appearance after 370 major league games as a starting pitcher.
Sabathia yielded the third run for Detroit in the fifth when he gave up a broken-bat double to Austin Jackson, who came around to score on a single by Victor Martinez.
New York failed to cash in on its first golden chance when Fister got Russell Martin to pop out to first and Brett Gardner to pop to third with the bases jammed in the fourth.
Robinson Cano finally got New York on the scoreboard with a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth off Fister. New York scored another run on a bases-loaded walk to Mark Teixeira in the seventh, but it left three men on with Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher striking out.
In the ninth, Valverde, who finished all three Detroit wins, got Curtis Granderson to fly to left, retired Cano on a fly to center and ended with a flourish by striking out Rodriguez, who fanned for the third time in the game.
The visiting clubhouse was a wild scene, with players jumping up and down, whooping in joy and spraying champagne in all directions, bubbly dripping off their protective goggles.
With the Tigers vying for their first World Series title since 1984, ace Justin Verlander will start the ALCS opener at Texas tomorrow against the Rangers' CJ Wilson.
The victory in New York gave Detroit a 3-2 winning margin in their best-of-five divisional playoff series and sent the Yankees, who had the best regular season record, into the offseason.
Don Kelly and Delmon Young blasted back-to-back home runs in the first inning off starter and loser Ivan Nova and three relievers finished up for Tigers starter Doug Fister to secure the victory. Jose Valverde, who was a perfect 49-for-49 in save chances during the regular season, notched the save.
"The Yankees are so good that I would be lying if I said it didn't give me a little extra satisfaction to be able to do it here in the fifth game," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland.
"I don't mean that disrespectfully, I mean that respectfully. It gave me a great thrill to be able to do it here in Yankee Stadium."
The Central Division champions Tigers pitched superbly in the clutch as they kept the Bronx Bombers from scoring with the bases loaded and one-out in the fourth inning.
They later gave up just one run with the bases full and one out in the seventh.
"These guys have pitched all year long, Detroit," New York manager Joe Girardi said after 11 Yankee base-runners were left stranded in the game. "I look at this game and it was one hit, maybe one sac fly. That was the difference. They made some huge pitches when they had to."
Nova left after two innings due to some tightening in his forearm and the Yankees paraded in six relievers, including Game 3 starter CC Sabathia, who made his first relief appearance after 370 major league games as a starting pitcher.
Sabathia yielded the third run for Detroit in the fifth when he gave up a broken-bat double to Austin Jackson, who came around to score on a single by Victor Martinez.
New York failed to cash in on its first golden chance when Fister got Russell Martin to pop out to first and Brett Gardner to pop to third with the bases jammed in the fourth.
Robinson Cano finally got New York on the scoreboard with a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth off Fister. New York scored another run on a bases-loaded walk to Mark Teixeira in the seventh, but it left three men on with Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher striking out.
In the ninth, Valverde, who finished all three Detroit wins, got Curtis Granderson to fly to left, retired Cano on a fly to center and ended with a flourish by striking out Rodriguez, who fanned for the third time in the game.
The visiting clubhouse was a wild scene, with players jumping up and down, whooping in joy and spraying champagne in all directions, bubbly dripping off their protective goggles.
With the Tigers vying for their first World Series title since 1984, ace Justin Verlander will start the ALCS opener at Texas tomorrow against the Rangers' CJ Wilson.
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