Yankees Didn't Need Much Bubbly After Ousting Bumbling Twins

by Ed Price

Filed under: Twins, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series

NEW YORK -- Somehow, it felt like the Yankees shouldn't have even popped the champagne late Saturday night.

Sure, they won their American League Division Series to advance to the Championship Series. But Yankees-Twins has replaced "Everybody Loves Raymond" as the most predictable show on TBS.

The Yankees won 6-1 Saturday to finish off the sweep, and once Robinson Cano led off the bottom of the second inning with a triple, the outcome never felt in doubt -- even when Kerry Wood vainly tried to make it competitive in the eighth.

By the end of the fourth inning, it was 5-0, and it felt like 50-0. The Twins went down in 10 pitches or fewer in four of their seven innings against Phil Hughes and lost their ninth straight postseason game against the Yankees.

"We wanted to finish this today, because you don't want to give the other team any hope," Derek Jeter said.

 

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