Even after successful 94 video games and simply taking part in within the World Collection a yr in the past, the New York Yankees nonetheless had some fairly massive flaws and issues going into the 2025 postseason. Their finest participant, Aaron Choose, wanted to indicate he might dominate within the playoffs as a lot as he does within the common season, they usually wanted to have the ability to belief their bullpen and pitching workers.
They can’t be feeling superb about any of these narratives following an unsightly 10-1 Recreation 1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays within the ALDS on Saturday.
The Yankees’ massive bats went quiet once more
Because of some clutch pitching performances within the wild-card spherical, the Yankees have been in a position to get by means of the Boston Red Sox by coming again to win Video games 2 and three. Nevertheless it was nonetheless a largely quiet displaying from a few of their finest hitters, together with Choose.
Whereas Choose has collected at the very least two hits in all three playoff video games this postseason, he has but to ship an extra-base hit. And even worse, he got here up small in some of the pivotal moments of Recreation 1 on Saturday.
With the Yankees trailing, 2-0, Choose got here to bat on the prime of the fifth inning with the bases loaded and no one out. Not solely did he fail to drive in a run, however he additionally struck out swinging at a possible ball 4 properly out of the strike zone. It was not even swing.
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