ALDS Game 3: Rogers throws game of his life
posted in New York Yankees, Post-season |Somewhere, somehow, baseball is a spiritual game in a way no other game can touch. We saw that Friday night.
In Detroit’s first home playoff game in 19 years, Kenny Rogers gave Tigers fans hungry for playoff baseball one of the best pitching performances in the history of the organization. As exciting as Joel Zumaya was in the series’ second game, Rogers was transcendent.
Rogers threw the game of his life. He shut out a lineup that everyone proclaimed to be Murderer’s Row II for nearly eight innings, and Joel Zumaya and Todd Jones extended that to a 6-0 shutout through nine. Rogers, a guy with a perfect game under his belt, was as close to perfect as you could ever hope for in the playoffs.
The dream season that we thought had slipped away is no longer a dream. This is October. Now it’s a reality. That was Ernie Harwell’s voice coming from your television and radio, bridging the years. That was Chet Lemon’s name you heard mentioned when Curtis Granderson hit two home runs in a series. That was playoff baseball at its finest.
Jeremy Bonderman is on the mound this afternoon with a chance to erase the last game he pitched from our minds, and more importantly, the chance to send the Yankees back to New York City with yet another defeat.
I’ll write more Saturday. I can’t even begin to do it justice tonight.
[...] Mack Avenue Tigers: A Detroit Tigers Blog » ALDS Game 3: Rogers throws game of his life The dream season that we thought had slipped away is no longer a dream. This is October. Now it’s a reality. That was Ernie Harwell’s voice coming from your television and radio, bridging the years. That was Chet Lemon’s name you heard mentioned when Curtis Granderson hit two home runs in a series. That was playoff baseball at its finest. [...]
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