28th September 2011, 11:32 PM
Yankees had home-field wrapped up long ago! They gotta rest their players for the playoffs. Why should they care about what's essentially a meaningless game? Having said that, the series wasn't meaningless. Given the fact that the Red Sox were the worst team in baseball the month of September and Tampa one of the best, you'd think that they'd prefer to potentially come up against the weaker team in the playoffs. Who wants to get swept in the final series and then give the winners a massive momentum boost? A huge challenge awaits the Yankees if they meet them in round two. And Tiexera still hit a grande slam tonight. The Yankees ran up the score 7-0. As if they intentionally gave up a two-out strike-two home run in the bottom of the ninth to a pinch-hitter batting .190. Like they wanted Longoria to hit two dingers (btw his walk-off looked a lot like Aaron Boone's walk-off in the 2003 ALCS). It was the Red Sox who looked like they weren't trying to win, not the Yankees.