Category: The Diamond News
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Houston sweeps New York in the ALCS.
Well, just as I predicted after Game 1… The Houston Astros have swept the New York Yankees (4-0) in the ALCS to win their 2nd straight AL pennant. Houston was dominate, plain and simple. I knew as a Yankee’s fan going into this series that it wouldn’t end well, but I never imagined it would…
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Houston takes a commanding 3-0 series lead.
The Astros won’t lose this postseason. They are a perfect 6-0 so far and after a 5-0 victory on Saturday, are now just one win away from reaching another World Series. As a Yankees fan, I’ll be the first one to admit that we simply cannot beat the Astros… And I will be shocked if…
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Bregman’s Home Run leads Houston to 2-0 ALCS Series Lead
Houston defeats the Yankees 3-2 and remains undefeated in the 2022 Postseason. Not only is Houston still undefeated so far this postseason, but they continue their dominance over the Yankees. Framber Valdez and the Houston bullpen struck out 13 Yankees and held them to only 4 hits. (Houston pitching has struck out 30 Yankee batters…
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“Houston, the Yankees aren’t going to be a problem”
Game 1 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS) was played last night at Minute Maid Park between the Yankees and Astros. While New York might have been feeling good coming off of a Game 5 ALDS win over Cleveland, they looked terrible last night. The Astros took Game 1 by a score of 4-2…
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The Yankees are headed to the ALCS!
The Yankees took down the Guardians in Game 5 of the ALDS, to advance to face Houston for the AL Pennant. The Yankees drew first blood thanks to a Giancarlo Stanton 3-run homer in the first inning & would add another run in the second inning off of an Aaron Judge solo homer. Cleveland would…
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Yankees fend off elimination, force Game 5.
The Yankees turned to Ace Gerrit Cole in Game 4 to save their season and he did just that. Cole would go 7 innings, allowing 6 hits, 2 runs, and striking out 8. The Yanks drew first blood (in the Top of the 1st) when Anthony Rizzo would hit an RBI single to plate Gleyber…
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Yankees blow 9th inning lead, Cleveland takes a 2-1 ALDS Series lead.
Going into last night’s game, the Yankees were 167-0 in team postseason history when leading by multiple runs in the 9th inning…. Well, Wandy Peralta & Clarke Schmidt said “that’s long enough” and gave up 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to hand Cleveland a 2-1 ALDS Series lead. Things started out rough…
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Yanks Drop Game 2, ALDS all squared at 1.
The Guardians rally back and take game 2 of the ALDS by a score of 4-2 in 10 innings. New York scored first (in the 1st), with a Giancarlo Stanton’s 2-run Homerun off of Shane Bieber, but the Guardians pitching staff shut down the Yanks for the remainder of the game. Cleveland scored their first…
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Yankees Take Game 1 of ALDS
The Yankees would send ace Gerrit Cole to the bump for game one and the Guardians would send Cal Quantrill to counter. Both pitchers pitched great games, despite some sloppy defense behind them (Cleveland had 2 errors and the Yankees had 1). The first run of the game came in the 3rd inning when Steven…
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Judge makes history, but the Yanks settle for a series tie with the Rangers.
The Yanks (99-63) wrapped up their 2022 regular season with a four-game set against the Rangers (68-94) in Arlington. The Bombers didn’t have much to play for as they were locked into the #2 AL seed regardless of the outcome. The big storyline was Aaron Judge and if he could break Roger Maris’ single season…