Detroit Tigers were on the ropes a lot but the Yanks could not get that Key hit and failed

Doug Fister who was quietly traded for from the Mariners at the end of July and went 3 and 1 in August and then was the American League pitcher for September as he went 5 and 0 with a 0.53 ERA and after a not so good start in Game 1 part 2 in the AL wild card series and after Don Kelly and Delmon Young went back to back in the first of the game he mowed down the Yankees in the first two inning and throw only 26 pitches while only given up a ground rule double. In the third the Yankees started getting to him as he throw 25 pitches in the inning and got out of the inning with first and second with two outs and got Cano to fly out to center. In the fourth he throw 31 pitches and had the bases loaded with one out and he got out of it again as Russell Martin popped up to first and then Brett Gardner fouled out to third to get out of the inning. To start the fifth C C came into pitch and Austin Jackson doubled and he scored on a Victor Martinez RBI single to make it 3-0 and in the bottom of the fifth Robertson Cano had a solo homer which was the only run Fister gave up in his 5 innings of 5 hits with 4Ks and 2 walks. In the bottom of the seventh with Jeter on first with one out Joaquin Benoit came in and immediately was asked to remove a band-aid from his face and it disrupted his concentration and ended loaded the bases with one out and A-rod struck out and got booed and then Teixeira walked in a run but he finally struck out Nick Swisher with the bases loaded and it was 3-2 Tigers. Jose Valverde came in for the Tigers and went 1-2-3 through the Yankees in the ninth ending with A-Rod striking out again to end the game and got booed off the field.

The Yankees big guns were shooting blanks as Derek Jeter went 6 for 24 (.250), Curtis Granderson hit 5 for 19 (.263), A-Rod went 2 for 17 (.118) with 5Ks, Mark Teixeira hit 3 for 18 (.167) with 5Ks so the Yankees just hurt themselves throughout the series and Joe Girardi just like the last game of the regular season just lost his mind tonight trying to Massage the Yankees through the game and used almost all his pitchers as brought 7 pitchers for a nine inning 3-2 game and Rivera only faced 4 batters in the series and only throw 8 pitches all strikes.

It great to see the Yanks fall down and go boom

Tom Mehegan