Source: www.bangthebook.com --- Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The stress level of a winner-take-all game in the Major League Baseball playoffs is off the charts. We’ve got one on Wednesday night between the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians just down the street from Lake Erie at Progressive Field. The pitching matchup will be a repeat of Game 2, which featured CC Sabathia up against Corey Kluber. Sabathia was the better pitcher in that game, but the Indians had one of the more improbable comeback wins in recent playoff history. Cleveland is a -195 favorite to advance to the ALCS for the second consecutive year. This has been one of those series that defines playoff Baseball. The Indians rocked the best bullpen in Baseball in Game 2 in order to take a 2-0 series lead. Everything seems to go Cleveland’s way in the first two games, with Francisco Lindor’s grand slam off the foul pole and Joe Girardi’s inability to challenge a borderline call. In the Bronx, fortune favored the home team, with Aaron Judge just tall enough to rob a Lindor home run, a coin flip check swing call going New York’s way, and a ball that hit chalk opening the floodgates. Most playoff games are decided by a handful of 50/50 outcomes. That has been the case for a decent chunk of this series, which is why we have a Game 5. It will be interesting to see how long the leash is for CC Sabathia with Sonny Gray, Chad Green, and Adam Warren all waiting in the wings as multi-inning options in an effort to push this game ...
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