American League Championship Series Game 4:October 21st, 2021
Texas Rangers -
New York Yankees @ Yankee Stadium
TEX: SP
Jake J. Thompson(R, 0-0 0.00)
NYY: SP
Gio Gonzalez(L, 1-0 2.57)
Jake's first postseason start. And it was similar to the last two starts.
Gallo and co. flew out to the track three times in two innings, and
Brandon McKay then homered and
Didi Gregorius clobbered an RBI-double down the left-field line to drive in
Andujar... who was hit by a pitch... NYY 2, TEX 0.
A single and walk later, we had a little chance to score...
Bradley fanned, top of the third over. Bottom third... and our World Series ambitions went down the drain as
Sanchez homered and
Judge,
McKay and
Frazier singled, NYY 4, TEX 0.
And we were not hitting the gopher balls of a 5.71ERA arm for five innings... until
Joey G. connected with a 2-run JACK to make it 4-2 and to kick
Gonzalez out of the game. We, on the other hand, should've put
Thompson out earlier... has he was left in... you guessed it. 5-2 Yankees.
Royce Lewis got on... as usual... in the seventh and Yankees arm
Alex Lange then had to throw 22 pitches to
McKinney,
Mazara and
Bradley... and the later singled in a run! NYY 5, TEX 3 after seven...
One inning later,
Justin Williams who got the start on a hunch... doubled to left, and that brought up
Eusebio... out... and
Castellanos... flyball to center, deep center.
Frazier stole outs at the track all series long... not this time as the ball... CAROMS OF THE WALL AND INTO THE FIELD!
WILLIAMS IN,
CASTELLANOS AT SECOND!
That brought up
Lewis... who grounded out to the pitcher... end of the eighth. Well, the top half. The bottom half saw
Claudio pitch... and give up another run... 2-run deficit with
Cody Carroll going into his second inning. 1-2-3 and our ALCS just went down the drain.
SP
Jake J. Thompson 5.1IP 11H 5R 4ER 3BB 3K
SS
Royce Lewis 2-5 R
1B
Bobby Bradley 1-5 R RBI
3B
Joey Gallo 1-4 R 2RBI HR
C
Danny Jansen 1-3 BB
RF
Justin Williams 3-3 R BB 2DB
2B
Jorge Castellanos 2-4 RBI DB
HR TEX:
Joey Gallo(3)
HR NYY:
Brendan McKay(1),
Gary Sanchez(2)
W:
Gio Gonzalez(2-0 2.92) L:
Jake J. Thompson(0-1 6.75) SV:
Cody Carroll(2 2.84)
TEX 4 NYY 6 NYY leads ALCS 3-1.
**** me. All year long, our starters have carried this team above high water... and in the ALCS, our guys suck.
NLCS:
Los Angeles Dodgers 1 -
Chicago Cubs 6
Los Angeles leads NLCS 2-1.