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Wrong call hurts Yankees in the second inning

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

Game 1 of the ALCS got off to a slow start with the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers scoreless after five innings. The Yankees would have had at least one run, though, if first base umpire Rob Drake had made the right call at the end of the second in…

CNNSI.com

Raul Ibanez sent Game 1 of the ALCS to extra innings with another dramatic home run in the ninth, but the Tigers have regained the lead on Delmon Young's RBI double in the top of the 12th.

Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com

Mr. October July? Rodriguez is back in the starting line-up (if you call "batting sixth" the starting line-up). Dog Fister and Andy Pettitte square off in chilly New York, and the ghosts of Orioles past will fly aimlessly through stadium, moan…

Jordan Bastian, MLB.com

Six years ago, Anibal Sanchez toed the rubber in old Yankee Stadium for his debut. On Sunday, Sanchez will start for Detroit in Game 2 of the ALCS against the Yankees in New York's newer version of its classic cathedral.

CNNSI.com

NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez returned to the Yankees' starting lineup for their AL championship series opener against Detroit on Saturday night, dropped to sixth in the batting order.

Jim Luttrell, nytimes.com

Times reporters and editors provide live analysis of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium.

Bryan Hoch, MLB.com

About 45 minutes after CC Sabathia fired the final out of the American League Division Series into Mark Teixeira's glove, manager Joe Girardi was huddling with his coaches plotting the Yankees' pitching for the next round.

Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com

The Yankees added reliever Cody Eppley to their active roster for the AL championship series against Detroit and dropped infielder Eduardo Nunez.

Ben Hoffman, nytimes.com

The Yankees' roster, in terms of players who have appeared in the postseason, is the eighth oldest in postseason history, with an average age of 32.

Sam Eifling, deadspin.com

For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world histo…

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

Whoever came up with the term "no rest for the wicked" would love the 2012 postseason. Yes, after all four LDS rounds went the distance for the first time ever, we're barreling straight into ALCS Game 1 on Saturday night. The first pitch at Ya…

Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com

Yesterday we brought you a screenshot of the half-empty stands inside of Yankee Stadium a good half hour after the first pitch of Game 5 of the Yankee-Orioles series. New York's transportation system is uniquely—how should we put it—clusterfuck-y arou…

Alex Remington, yahoo.com

Tyler Kepner, nytimes.com

For the Yankees' struggling hitters, it is probably best not to dwell too much on the Tigers, who held the A's to a .194 average in their division series. Then again, the Yankees held the Orioles to a .187 average in theirs.

nydailynews.com

When J.J. Hardy grounded out to Derek Jeter to end the eighth inning, leaving the bases loaded with the Orioles managing to score only one run, sighs of relief were heard coming from the headquarters o f TBS, Fox and Major League Baseball. And when CC S…

nydailynews.com

While Joe Girardi said Friday that he can’t be worried about the years ahead for Alex Rodriguez, five years that will cost the Yankees a minimum of $114 million, it is worth looking back on what might have been five years earlier had Hank Steinbrenner n…