Even after successful 94 video games and simply enjoying within the World Sequence a yr in the past, the New York Yankees nonetheless had some fairly massive flaws and issues going into the 2025 postseason. Their greatest participant, Aaron Decide, wanted to indicate he may 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 employees.Â
They cannot be feeling excellent about any of these narratives following an unpleasant 10-1 Sport 1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays within the ALDS on Saturday.Â
The Yankees’ massive bats went quiet once more
Because of some clutch pitching performances within the wild-card spherical, the Yankees had been in a position to get by way of the Boston Pink Sox by coming again to win Video games 2 and three. However it was nonetheless a principally quiet displaying from a few of their greatest hitters, together with Decide.
Whereas Decide has collected no less than 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 one of the vital pivotal moments of Sport 1 on Saturday.
With the Yankees trailing, 2-0, Decide got here to bat on the high 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 nicely out of the strike zone. It was not even an excellent swing.Â
