Clarke Schmidt, the Yankees’ season is in your hands.
Clarke Schmidt, the Yankees’ season is in your hands.
Monday’s Game 3 is as close as it gets to an elimination without actually being one.
The Yankees trail the Dodgers 2-0 in this World Series, and if they are going to come back from that deficit like they did in 1996, it will have to start with the next game in this series.
Only one team, the 2004 Red Sox, have come from 3-0 down in a playoff series.
“All the games I pitch are pressure at this point,” Schmidt said after the Yankees’ 4-2 loss to the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night. “It’s something I’ll be ready for, and I’m excited to get back out there.”
“I treat every game at this point — I think we all do — as a must-win.
