ALCS Recap

As October 17th, 2004 turned into October 18th, 2004 Joe Buck commented that the Yankees were closing in on their 40th World Series berth. No one could have predicted it would take five years for Buck's comments to turn into truth but last night they finally did as the Yankees defeated the Angels 5-2 to indeed win the 40th American League Pennant.This series featured a lot of bad managing and last night was no exception. In the first three innings Joe Saunders allowed six base runners and was pretty obviously living on the edge. Personally I would have lifted him after the second but Scoscia was determined to stick with him.In the fourth the Yankees went walk, single, sac bunt, walk. At that point the Yankees had sent 19 men to the plate and nine of them had reached with one of the outs being the gift sacrifice. Letting Saunders stay in the game was a mistake, letting him stay in the game to allow a walk, two singles and another walk before lifting him was just a terrible blunde...