只要是一分差的比賽,回想的時候都會很懊惱,某一個play如果可以完成就好了,
這一場也見識到老虎隊的中繼戰力了,就算用了磨工讓先發投手提早下去也不代表會贏,
1勝1敗以後也變成老虎隊有2場的主場優勢,明後兩天老虎球場都很關鍵
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Yankees catcher Jorge Posada thought the Tigers pitched better than the
Yankees on Thursday in squaring the American League Division Series at one
game apiece. Not that Mike Mussina was bad, Posada noted, but the key to
pitching is getting outs at the right time. Mussina did not do that as well
as his Detroit counterparts, to which he pleaded guilty after the 4-3 loss.
"I felt like I had control, but it was a strange game," Mussina said. "It was
frustrating. It was tough. I felt better than that. I threw the ball better
than that, but it seems that every time they had a chance to score they
scored. We had a lot of chances and didn't get many runs."
Ordinarily, if the Yankees hold the opposition to four runs, get ready to
mark up a W. The Yankees, whose lineup Tigers manager Jim Leyland has dubbed
"Murderers' Row plus Cano," averaged 5.74 runs per game during the regular
season and put eight on the board Tuesday night in Game 1.
Mussina didn't get any more offensive support than Johnny Damon's three-run
home run in the fourth inning that provided a two-run lead. With a run in
each of the next three innings, the Tigers regained the lead and went on
their first postseason victory in 19 years.
"It was a matter of them pitching better," Posada said. "[Justin Verlander]
did a lot of things well to keep them in the game. So when they tied the
ballgame, he was part of it."
The game simply got away from Mussina, whose postseason record fell to 7-8,
including 4-4 in 10 Division Series starts. The right-hander, 37, allowed
four runs and eight hits, including a home run, with no walks, five
strikeouts and a costly wild pitch.
That came in the fifth sending Marcus Thames, who led off the inning with a
double to left, to third base. One out later, Curtis Granderson scored Thames
with a fly to center. In the sixth, Carlos Guillen tied the score with a home
run to right.
"I didn't walk anybody, but I got into some bad counts," Mussina said. "The
home run was on 2-and-0. One of the doubles was on 3-and-1. I threw Marcus
Thames three pitches the whole game, and he got hits on each pitch. Three
hits on three different pitches. You can't give them too many opportunities.
You can't make mistakes. You can't do anything like that because this is the
postseason. They're going to be close games, low-scoring games, and missed
opportunities mean a lot."
The Yankees played into the Tigers' hands in the seventh. With Thames on
first after a leadoff single and Brandon Inge attempting to sacrifice him to
second, Posada couldn't handle a Mussina pitch for a passed ball. That put
Thames on second, so that when Inge got a bunt down it moved the runner to
third. Mussina got ahead 0-2 in the count to Granderson, who fouled off two
pitches before driving a triple to left-center for the go-ahead run.
"I was trying to get it in so he couldn't get a good swing at it," Mussina
said. "I didn't execute it properly. I didn't get it in enough."
Mussina sounded as if he was still uncertain about what approach to take
against an aggressive group of hitters such as the Tigers.
"It's a double-edged sword," he said. "If you try to expand the strike zone
early in the count because you think they're going to be aggressive and they
take a few pitches, all of a sudden it's 2-and-0 and now you're in a position
where you have to come in with a pitch in a hitter's count to a good hitting
club. When you do that, you give up doubles and homers.
"At the same time, if you just throw stuff right over the plate, they're
going to hit you, too. If you can't get them swinging at balls out of the
strike zone early in the count, you'll get yourself in a bad position. You're
better off just going right after them, getting strike one and taking it from
there. That's the approach I took, and it wasn't successful getting myself in
good situations as much as I wanted."
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