Final Four

The Detroit Tigers are up against the New York Yankees to win the division league series to move onto the highest level; the World Series. The World Series is where one team from the national league and one from the American league face each other to pronounce that they are the winners of all baseball for that year. The team that wins has full bragging rights on being the best team. Who wouldn’t want to be in that position?

                The division league series is best 5 out of 7 to move onto the next round. The Tigers have faced the Yankees three times so far and have won all their games. They now only have to win one more to play the Cardinals, Giants national league series winner. The Cardinals and Giants each have one win, so there are three more games promised to them.

                The matchup between the Cardinals and the Giants is somewhat a sore spot as the Cardinals won the title last year and the Giants won it the previous year. The Giants are looking to take revenge on the Cardinals and come away with a ring.

                The Tigers, Yankees game that have occurred haven’t been very exciting for Yankees fans. Their bats aren’t making solid contact, they are losing valuable players left and right, and they can’t seem to score any runs. The only run that they have scored against the Tigers was in the third game; Nunez pulled a homerun to left field off of Verlander in the 9^th inning. By this time Verlander had a total of 135 pitches and had Coke relieve him. Verlander left him with two outs needed to end the game. Suzuki grounded out and Ibanez struck out swinging shut down the Yankees moral and be down 3 games to nothing.

                The Yankees have lost two of the highest paid and some would say most valuable players; Alex Rodrigez, and Derek Jeter. A-Rod has had a downturn on his skills and has only gotten a measly 3 hits out of 23 at bats.  He has been benched for Chavez who seemed to be performing at a higher level than he was. In game one of the Tigers, Yankees in the division league series Derek Jeter injured his ankle diving for a ground ball in extra innings.  The trainer said that he will need a minimum of three months to heal. Jeter was expecting to go back into the game after a simple ankle wrap but he crumbled when he heard the news that he was ineligible for the rest of the season.

                The four teams that are left all have the drive to make it to the World Series and win the title for their club. Only a few games left that will decide who the winner will be. (470)