American League Championship Series Game 2:October 18th, 2021
New York Yankees -
Texas Rangers @ Globe Life Park
NYY: SP
Chance Adams(R, 0-1 1.80)
TEX: SP
Dallas Keuchel(L, 1-0 1.42)
Two things are true. The Yankees are getting nervous. And
Adams does not have the stamina to go more than 90-100 pitches without fatalities. And by the time he threw his first pitch,
Sanchez and
Stanton had already gone deep to make it 2-0 Yankees... and
Adams got out of the first when
Mazara ran into ANOTHER out at third base...
And the Yankees continued to eat
Keuchel alive with a three-run second, and a solo home run by
Michael Chavis in the third... and I was fuming. Why exactly did I trust
Keuchel's regular season numbers against the Yankees and not my gut that we should not play a lefty against the Yankees?
Anyways,
Gallo homered, so it was NYY 6, TEX 1 after three. And we did not get through
Adams in the way we needed it. One run was tailored together in the sixth and driven in by a
Royce Lewis double... and given back by
Dallas and some bad bullpen work... and that was pretty much the game as our only late rally saw
Mazara drive in one... 7-3 Yankees
Good thing, we used
Albert Abreu for three innings, so at least the pen did not take a big hit...
SP
Dallas Keuchel 5.1IP 8H 7ER 1BB 5K
SS
Royce Lewis 1-4 R RBI DB
LF
Billy McKinney 1-5
DH
Nomar Mazara 2-4 RBI DB
3B
Joey Gallo 3-3 R RBI BB HR
CF
Cole Brannen 1-4 DB
RF
Steven Sensley 1-3 BB
2B
Jorge Castellanos 1-3 R BB
HR NYY:
Gary Sanchez(1),
Giancarlo Stanton(2),
Michael Chavis(1)
HR TEX:
Joey Gallo(2)
W:
Chance Adams(1-1 2.45) L:
Dallas Keuchel(1-1 6.17)
NYY 7 TEX 3 ALCS tied at 1.
****ty game. We never really got going, or to be exact, we did not cash in on our hits... and the
Yankees simply hit three over the wall... should've started
Taylor...
NLCS:
Chicago Cubs 9 –
Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Chicago leads NLCS 1-0.
Chicago Cubs 1 –
Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Chicago leads NLCS 2-0.