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It's all about the leverage (or why Mariano should have pitched the 7th)
TEAMS: New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels
PLAYERS: David Robertson,  Damaso Marte,  Mark Teixeira,  Phil Coke,  Andy Pettitte,  Phil Hughes,  Chad Gaudin,  Mariano Rivera,  Darren Oliver,  Brian Fuentes,  John Lackey,  Alfredo Aceves,  Joba Chamberlain,  Mike Mussina,  Jered Weaver
Leverage is a funny word. A loaded word, if you will.For one thing, it's more or less responsible for the financial collapse of America.In baseball parlance, leverage refers to an on-field situation--the inning, number of outs, score, pitch count, etc--and how likely the result of that on-field situation is to have an effect on the game.Example: Bases loaded, no one out, top of the eleventh inning as it was in game 2 of the ALDS is a high leverage situation, because the result of the next...
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