Down 0-3 in the American League Championship Series to the Astros, the Yankees faced the monumental task of winning four straight games or going home having missed the World Series for the 13th str…
The Yankees got some inspiration from an usual source Sunday. Down 0-3 in the American League Championship Series to the Astros, the Yankees faced the monumental task of winning four straight games or going home having missed the World Series for the 13th straight year. Only one team has ever come back from being down 0-3.
So Sunday morning, the Yankees found a three minute clip of their most bitter rivals, the Red Sox, rallying from three down against the Bombers in the 2004 ALCS.
“We watched that video today,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before the Bombers’ do-or-die Game 4 at Yankee Stadium. “We sent it out to all our coaches and got it out to our players and stuff.”
The Yankees have to try something, because they have been dominated by the Astros pitching so far in this series. The Yankees hitters, who led the American League in scoring and led baseball in home runs, went into Game 4 having a 33.7% strikeout rate in the first three games, the highest in postseason history (with a minimum of 200 plate appearances). They have been held to six hits or fewer in their last six playoff games. It’s not just the playoffs, the Astros have beaten them up all year.
