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NEW YORK – The New York Yankees are heading to the division series of the American League. The Yankees sent the Oakland Athletics Wild Card game Wednesday night to set up a clash against ALDS with their rival, the Boston Red Sox. The final score was 7-2 on Wednesday (The score of the box). ALDS begins on Friday.
As expected, the Wild Card Game has essentially become a game of tidy for both teams. The A's all announced that they were going to play with a real memory game Wednesday night, and that's exactly what they did. The Yankees ended up relying quite often on their pens.
Let's describe the game Wild Card and the throwing decisions for each round. Come with me, is not it?
Top 1
The Yankees encouraged Luis Severino to throw the Wild Card Game and the sacred cats, he was electric from the first run. Two outs on catches wrapped around a ground ball in a 1-2-3 innings. Last year, Severino allowed three points and scored one in the Wild Card game. Needless to say, his first run in this year's Wild Card game was much better.
Bottom 1
Liam Hendriks started after closing the regular season with seven "openings" without points. It did not go well. He walked Andrew McCutchen on five courts – McCutchen made 22 walks in 25 regular season games with the Yankees – and then served a two-run home run to Aaron Judge. It was a bombshell:
At 116.1 mph, it was the most touched bullet by the judge since June 4th. He missed almost two months due to a wrist injury, remember. His hardest hit ball in the regular season after the injury was 112.1 mph.
Hendriks is well set to withdraw the next three batters, but by that time, the damage was done. The opener allowed two points in his sleeve.
2nd top
Severino was sacked for the second run, as it should, after his dominating top of the first. The second run was much more laborious. Severino eliminated Khris Davis on five shots, then led Matt Olson on nine shots to give their first-stop to A. Olson blocked three double-thrown shots in the attack.
With Olson in the lead and a goal behind, Severino told Stephen Piscotty everything and then wrote it off. He then ran the account thoroughly until Ramon Laureano and also hit him. Severino pulled out three goals in the second run, but he needed 27 shots to do it. He walked Olson and went to three complete accounts. The athletics really made it work.
2nd down
"Everything is going to be played," said A director Bob Melvin before the Wild Card Game, to the question of whether he knew who would be his first man out of the market. "We have a semi-script, but it depends on the situation, so it's a bit like playing in the ear."
With the score 2 to 0 lost, the first player to come out of the arena was Lou Trivino, the man at the club head for a good part of the season. Trivino struggled in September and was greeted by a Didi Gregorius single and a four-legged walk by Miguel Andujar. As good as it is this season, walking on Andujar on four terrains is not easy.
Oakland pitcher coach Scott Emerson went to the mound after the first two batters of the second run reached the base, and whatever he said to Trivino, it worked. Trivino pushed Gary Sanchez to play a double game in 4-6-3 to bypass the New York Rally, then managed to knock Gleyber Torres over three bad rotations to escape the heat.
Top 3rd
The Yankees skipper, Aaron Boone, had no reason to remove Severino at this point, even after walking Marcus Semien to start the inning. That made four batters in a row to see a full count. A Jonathan Lucroy player on the ground, Nick Martini's choice of defensive player to first base and a Matt Chapman flight to the right ended the inning. Severino went to a full account on Chapman. This made five complete counts in the space of seven batters.
"Sevy set the tone and really went out on a mission and I thought he had thrown the ball so well," Boone said following the Wild Card Game. "But I congratulate him on the A. They made it hard, and they fought it and he was able to make big shots when he really needed it, but somehow l? really did work hard until that point. "
3rd at the bottom
The A took away 11 throwers in their Wild Card Game lineup and it seemed quite possible that they would use nine in nine innings. Or maybe eight pitchers in nine innings with Blake Treinen for a save of six outings.
Rather than go to a third place, Melvin stayed with Trivino, who rewarded him with a 1-2-3 run on 12 shots. Against the top of the order as well: Trivino withdrew McCutchen, Judge, and Aaron Hicks. After Hendriks had a bad first run and allowed the first two riders to reach the goal in the second run, Trivino pulled out six batters in a row and restored order.
"We have some dominant guys," Melvin said before the game. "(They) had to acclimate to that type of style too, but they did, but the pen was definitely our strength."
Top 4th
In three sets, the athletes had two goals, six strikeouts and no hits. No really hit balls either. After the first run, however, Severino survived more than dominating and the fourth inning was his toughest run. Jed Lowrie flew on the first pitch, then, for the third time on three balls on the ground, a Yankees corner player made a bad shot. This time, Andujar scored a first-on-the-ground goal for Davis and Luke Voit failed to make the scoop early.
Olson worked his second step of the game to put two runners on the base and, at that point, I started looking towards the Yankees pen. They were leading 2-0 at that time, but Severino was starting to shake and the tie game was on a base. He had also made 66 shots. Instead, Boone let him ride with Severino, who received a ball from Piscotty and then led Laureano to charge the bases. It was a sacred bat; Laureano was split on four courts just off the plate after falling behind in the 0-2 countdown.
The walk to Laureano prompted the call to the pen. Do not replace Severino. Just to warm someone up. That's one: Dellin Betances, the eighth-round reliever of New York all season. As he had just started to warm it up, it meant that Severino would face Semien with loaded bases and two outs, and Severino escaped from bottling with a high octane gas. :
The A's have been literally the worst baseball team against fastballs over 95 mph during the regular season. Last last average batting and percentage of slugging. The pace that Semien managed to cross for strike three was 99.6 mph. It was the fastest tone of Severino's evening. Boone stuck with his starter rather than going to the pen and it worked.
4th at the bottom
On one occasion this season, Trivino has pitched three innings during a regular season outing. It was April 18, when he launched 49 shots for his second appearance of the year. He had not even thrown a full round in a match since July 14th. But when a guy plays well in a game to do or die, you stay with him and Melvin sent Trivino for a third round. He removed the team on 13 fields with two shots. Three launderings for Trivino.
"We organized pretty well and Trivino came in and did a good job and stayed 2-0 for a while," said Melvin at the end of the match. "We felt very good if we met good attackers."
Top 5th
"Severino, he could play very easily in the depths of this game and it would not surprise me and I think he's very capable of it," Boone said before the match when asked what he would turn towards his enclosure. It seemed that Severino had finished after eliminating Semien to end the fourth very stressful run. He had made 81 throws so far and emptied the tank against Semien.
Instead, Boone opened for a second attempt. He sent Severino to start the fifth and after two consecutive singles to start the frame – these are the first two successes of the A – Boone match started. To return it seemed useless.
Betances, who had warmed up in the fourth inning, entered the match with two on and no outing to fifth. He had not gone into a game so early since 2014, his first year. Betances had not yet entered a game before the seventh inning of the season. He had been the eighth guy from Boone all summer.
Consider the situation, however:
- The Yankees led 2-0.
- The A had runners at first and second, with no outs.
- The 2-3-4 batters were expected at Chapman, Lowrie and Davis.
- It's a winning match in any season.
If this situation does not scream "I have to use my best lifter here," nothing will do it. Damn the "usual" sleeve of a guy. The Yankees needed their best lifter to escape Betances jam and jam. Chapman flew to the right, Lowrie flew to the center and Davis went out. The round is over, the runners are gone. As good as the center of New York, a lesser reliever like David Robertson or Chad Green escapes this mess? Boone wisely did not bother to try to find out.
"We wanted Dellin for this part of the order, so I was willing to go see him as soon as we were," Boone said. "Sevy had the opportunity to get through these guys, and if he did that, you know if he had released those first two guys, we would have stayed with Sevy there, but we're ready, if two guys got along there and just because they were making them work so hard, we were ready to go to Dellin's if we deemed it necessary.And after the first two guys got along, I believe that Was like time. "
5th at the bottom
Trivino had reached his limit. Three innings and 41 pitches were his longest outing for months. While three right-handed batters (Andujar, Sanchez and Torres) needed to qualify for the fifth inning, Melvin called on right-handed slider Shawn Kelley. After a single in the field, Kelley retired the next three batters on 12 shots. Three throwers, five innings, two innings allowed. Would Melvin and the A have taken this for the Wild Card game? I think so.
Top 6th
In 2014 and 2015, when he established for the first time as one of the best bullies of the game, Betances routinely led several rounds with each outing. He was Josh Hader, basically. Use it for two or three runs at a time, give a few days off, then release it.
Betances does not really do it anymore. As the sleeves increase and wear builds up, this second run is not as easy as in the past. Still, in a major playoff game, Boone relied on his best reliever and Betances got a three-set up and three downs. He entered with two runners on goal and no withdrawal in the fifth inning, and withdrew the six batters he faced. It was the first time that Betances had recorded at least four outs since August 11 and the first time that it had completed two full sets since May 23.
"I had been waiting for this moment for a long time," said Betances, who was persona non grata in the playoffs last year because he had struggled so much with his control.
6th at the bottom
If you want to guess anything that Melvin did in the Wild Card game, it's probably the round. The Yankees kept their lead 2-0 at the time and the 2-3-4 forwards were expected. Melvin appealed to Fernando Rodney, who is still very good at 41 but is no longer good. The judge scored a brace early in the first-base bag and scored a brace Aaron Hicks in the center-right gap …
… it was juuust out of reach of a leaping Semien, who was behind the bag of the second base. At four throws in the heat, the Yankees had consecutive doubles and an insurance round. Giancarlo Stanton qualified for the first wild pitch and allowed Hicks to take third place, without outs.
At this point, Melvin has done something radical. He went to Treinen, his closest, without outs in the sixth inning. To great evils the great means. The A's were down 3-0 with a fourth run at 90 feet. They had to stop the Yankees from scoring here.
"We just have to do our best there at that time," Melvin said. "They knew everything was going to be okay tonight depending on the situation of the game. We will not do that, we will not do it earlier in the year, but by the time we are, trying to cut if off. "
My question: If Melvin was ready to use Treinen in the sixth inning, when did he not start it so he could face the judge? Treinen was finally unable to stop the bleeding. He stepped on Stanton after a stick attack of eight lengths, then dropped the triple treble to Voit. It was very close to Yankee Stadium's short straight court porch for a three-run home run.
It should be noted that Voit worked with Treinen for nine lengths of training and drove three of his turbosinkers in two strokes to stay alive. It was a monster at bat. That record shows that I called Voit and that he has a big hit in my prediction of Wild Card. True, just about every other part of my prediction was wrong, but small victories. Voit triple gave the Yankees a 5-0 lead. He then scored on a sacrificial volley Gregorius to lengthen the lead to 6-0. Replay confirmed that he had slipped around Lucroy's beacon.
"He kept coming in with the lead, the lead, the lead, and I was trying to push him outside, and he was coming back all the time," Voit said. "I had already faced him before and I knew he was going to switch to a slider at some point and I have a shot to hit in the ninth."
Top 7
With six innings in the books and a three-point lead, it was time for the Yankees to start counting goals. Robertson started the seventh inning 1-2-3 and was assisted by Adeiny Hechavarria, who replaced Andujar for the defense in the third inning.
Boone and the Yankees regularly brought Andujar to the defense late in the season games. Usually, however, in the eighth or ninth inning. Andujar was fired for the defense in the sixth The Wild Card Game rounds were rewarded in the seventh. Three pitchers and seven innings in the night, the Yankees had a 6-0 lead.
7th at the bottom
Once Treinen came in, Melvin would stop him from going out. Treinen had three runs in one game this season, and 19 times in 68 appearances, he had at least four outs. Melvin was getting as close as possible to his All-Star. Treinen handed a two-handed walk to the judge in a seventh inning without incident.
Top 8
Boone was able to use Betances in the fifth and sixth innings as he had Zach Britton, an accomplished near close behind, in reserve for the last innings. Britton came in with the Yankees 6-0 in the eighth inning and battled the midfield. Their ground ball rates:
- Chapman: 40.3% (58th lowest among 140 skilled hitter)
- Lowrie: 33.2% (seventh lowest)
- Davis: 35.3 percent (20th lowest)
- Olson: 35.9 percent (25 th lower)
The A's have a central position at the center of the fly-ball training – they were years ahead of everyone else at the launch angle – and Britton is the most extreme baseball pitcher of baseball For years. His groundball rate with the Yankees was 77.8% this year. It was 77.7% with the 2015-2017 Orioles. The Yankees went with their ground ball specialist against the ball specialists, and well, Davis did this:
The two home runs attracted Athletics and reduced New York's lead to 6-2. Britton had three ground ball shots in the inning, so the plan worked well. Whatever the case may be, the Yankees played eight innings with a 6-2 lead.
8th at the bottom
In the eighth inning, Treinen shot 38 shots for six outs. Only twice, he shot as many shots in the regular season: 44 shots on April 18 and 40 shots on July 21. He also played 37 shots on May 2nd.
Melvin sent Treinen back for the eighth inning, and although it's easy to guess this decision given the number of throws Treinen has thrown, I can not blame a manager for staying with his ace of relief in a match to win. Stanton hit the 42nd and final shot of Treinen's night near the moon for a solo circuit and a 7-2 lead.
Treinen has never allowed more than one deserved race per game. You must go back to September 4, 2017, for the last time that he has cleared several earned runs in an outing, and as of June 29, 2017, for the last time, he has allocated up to three earned runs to a exit. In addition, Treinen failed only 13 times in 68 regular season games in 2018. Then he did it in the Wild Card Game.
Melvin introduced Treinen into the game in the sixth inning – he was very aggressive with his closest ace – but that just did not work. Give the Yankees the credit of working hard, not to miss and directing the ball when they have something to hit. Melvin went to Jeurys Familia to finish his eighth inning and withdrew the following three batters after Stanton's 10-shot run.
Top 9th
With a 7-2 lead in the Wild Card Game winner, the player wins it at Aroldis Chapman. And, even though Chapman was doing silly things, he still had the Green available as a safety net. Chapman granted Semien a first single before removing the next three batters to close the match and send the Yankees to Boston for ALDS.
As expected, Wednesday's AL Wild Card Game evolved into a corrector game for both sides. For the A's, it was intentional. They planned a game early. They just did not expect Hendriks to leave them behind in the first run, nor for Treinen to be less untouchable. The six A picks combined their efforts to allow seven points in eight innings.
Meanwhile, the Yankees relied on their marker after Severino led them through four innings and two batters. He was electric in the first heat and had to grind. Four Yankees allied for five innings and only two points on the Davis circuit. The Wild Card Game had a very good chance of becoming a puck fight, and that's exactly what happened, with the Yankees winning.
"I think it's different (handle in the playoffs)," said Boone after the game. "I think it's certainly different from the regular season, with the aggression and you're ready to push guys and some opponents on a given night, yes, but it changes a bit every day."
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