The Major League Baseball postseason is less than three weeks away and the Yankees have a 99% probability of making it according to FanGraphs. What they might be able to do once they get there doesn’t seem promising at the moment. They keep coming up small when they go against the teams they are likely to find there.
That was the case once again on Wednesday night when the Yankees hosted the AL Central-leading Tigers. For the second night in a row, Detroit hitters battered Yankees relievers and Yankees hitters did little against Tigers pitching in what ended up an 11-1 rout where outfielder Austin Slater was called on to get the final two outs before 36,727 at the Stadium.
Gleyber Torres, who moved to Detroit for this season after seven years in pinstripes when the Yankees didn’t offer h