Detroit Tigers shut down New York Yankees
This year's MLB playoffs have their first surprise: the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees defeated 3-2 in the fifth game and thus won the American League Division Series 3-2. The Yankees were a team with the best record in the American League started in the playoffs.In the finals series starting on Saturday of the AL, the Tigers now take on the Texas Rangers.
New York Yankees - Detroit Tigers 2-3 - Series 2-3
With their home runs in the first inning brought Kelly and Don Young Delmond Detroit early on the road to victory. Victor Martinez built the leadership of the guests in the fifth inning with an RBI single made it 3-0 - as it turns out, this was already the decision, as the guests of starter Doug Fister pitcher (5 innings, 1 run) in the important phases of the nerves retained.
"The Yankees are so good, I'd be lying if I said that it's not given me an extra satisfaction of having beaten them here in game five," Tigers coach Jim Leyland was after the match full of happiness.
New York did during the exciting game of wasted too many chances and managed solely at four impact tests at Bases loaded a single hit.Points for the Bronx Bombers ensured Robinson Cano (home run in the fifth inning) and Mark Teixeira (Walk with bases loaded in the 7th inning).
Alex Rodriguez once again disappointed
Particularly disappointing for the Yankees fans was once again the idea of superstar Alex Rodriguez. The superstar, with approximately $ 30 million annual salary is the highest paid baseball player in the world, brought into existence the entire series of 18 impact tests only two hits. In the decisive fifth game, he went away empty-handed and finished the game with a strikeout against Tigers-Closer Jose Valverde.
"This is an insane and disappointment is still a very long time to hurt," said A-Rod commenting on the retirement of his team.
And Teixeira, who handed in with three hits only a marginally better performance, added: "A year without winning the championship, is a lost year none of us was prepared now to go home already.."
Designated hitter for the Yanks, Jorge Posada (40), it might have been to five World Series wins, the last MLB game of his career.
In the National League, the two local participants in the finals series to determine the night Saturday when the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in their fifth Games collide.
This year's MLB playoffs have their first surprise: the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees defeated 3-2 in the fifth game and thus won the American League Division Series 3-2. The Yankees were a team with the best record in the American League started in the playoffs.In the finals series starting on Saturday of the AL, the Tigers now take on the Texas Rangers.
New York Yankees - Detroit Tigers 2-3 - Series 2-3
With their home runs in the first inning brought Kelly and Don Young Delmond Detroit early on the road to victory. Victor Martinez built the leadership of the guests in the fifth inning with an RBI single made it 3-0 - as it turns out, this was already the decision, as the guests of starter Doug Fister pitcher (5 innings, 1 run) in the important phases of the nerves retained.
"The Yankees are so good, I'd be lying if I said that it's not given me an extra satisfaction of having beaten them here in game five," Tigers coach Jim Leyland was after the match full of happiness.
New York did during the exciting game of wasted too many chances and managed solely at four impact tests at Bases loaded a single hit.Points for the Bronx Bombers ensured Robinson Cano (home run in the fifth inning) and Mark Teixeira (Walk with bases loaded in the 7th inning).
Alex Rodriguez once again disappointed
Particularly disappointing for the Yankees fans was once again the idea of superstar Alex Rodriguez. The superstar, with approximately $ 30 million annual salary is the highest paid baseball player in the world, brought into existence the entire series of 18 impact tests only two hits. In the decisive fifth game, he went away empty-handed and finished the game with a strikeout against Tigers-Closer Jose Valverde.
"This is an insane and disappointment is still a very long time to hurt," said A-Rod commenting on the retirement of his team.
And Teixeira, who handed in with three hits only a marginally better performance, added: "A year without winning the championship, is a lost year none of us was prepared now to go home already.."
Designated hitter for the Yanks, Jorge Posada (40), it might have been to five World Series wins, the last MLB game of his career.
In the National League, the two local participants in the finals series to determine the night Saturday when the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in their fifth Games collide.
