The Tigers beat the Yankees 8-1 to capture the 2012 American League pennant. Team team with the worst record among the five to make the playoffs wind up capturing the AL flag. Texas faded down the stretch after having the best record for much of the season, but they dropped to the wild card, and was beaten by the upstart Orioles. The Tigers then played another surprising team, the Oakland Athletics, and won game five in convincing fashion, 6-0 behind Justin Verlander. Meanwhile, the Yankees offense disappeared against Baltimore, and they couldn’t get it back. Their starting pitching was good enough that just a few runs would win them a game, but until this game they had not score in innings 1-8 against the Tigers. They scored just six runs in the four games.
Max Scherzer had another short but effective outing in game four. He walked one and struck out ten in 5 2/3 innings, giving him two walks and 18 K in 11 innings in the playoffs this year. The starting staff owns a 1.02 ERA against two very good teams.
Early next week they will head to either San Francisco or St. Louis for the World Series. They’ll bring a hot pitching staff and some big sluggers with them. Unlike their AL opponents with better records, the Tigers peaked at exactly the right time.
Congratulations to the Tigers, 2012 AL Champions!
Either an all heartland series in battleground states for the election or an all orange & black series for Halloween.
Idiot Yankee Fan, ignoring the almost complete collapse of the Yankee offense and CC’s rancid performance in Game Four: “IT’S ALL AROD’S FAULT!!!”
Do players who make 1 milliOn a week in the regular season really want to give up a month of vacation time for 100k a week? LOL
Seriously, I don’t think Cc, Arod, Teixeira and Jeter were healthy . It’s amazing they won 95 games with all the injuries.
I always thought a year you got to the ALCS was a good year. Obviously, not as good as going all the way.
If the Yankees can trade Arod, move Jeter to 3B and sign Papi and Hamilton, next year could be an interesting year with Rivera and maybe Pineda returning at some point.
Arod still had a season in which he was worth al
Almost 10 million despite the lost time. A broken hand is hardly an age related injury and likely hampered him when he returned. Marlins should be willing to pay 40 million of what he is owed.