In four regular-season starts against the Yankees this year Price had three losses and an 11.30 earned run average. The Red Sox, however, won enough games – a major league-most 108 – that Price’s failures against the Yankees didn’t keep them from October. But what about the games Price would pitch in October? Certainly, no one would mistake Price for a pitching version of Mr. October.
Price, a 33-year-old left-hander, started the second game of …
Pitchers make mistakes, and the baseballs they throw to batters wind up in the stands. Pitchers don’t get do-overs. They have to live with their mistakes.
How many times have you heard a pitcher say in a post-game interview “I only made one mistake,” but the batter hit the mistake for a home run, and it cost the pitcher’s team the game?
I raise the issue of mistakes because Angel Hernandez, a major league umpire for 27 years, has been …
Alex Cora and the Red Sox are playing the Astros in the American League Championship Series. Aaron Boone and the Yankees have gone home.
The Red Sox, under Cora, have achieved more than they did last year under John Farrell. The Yankees have already fallen short of what they achieved last year under Joe Girardi.
The Yankees fired Girardi a year ago supposedly not because they didn’t make it past the A.L. championship series but because of what they heard from the clubhouse. Girardi, officials said, did not …
