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The Indians Destroyed The Yankees

The Cleveland Indians destroyed the New York Yankees Thursday night 12-3 in game one of their playoff series. I watched most of the game, and it still surprises me the Indians could generate as much offense as they did. If someone told me before the game that the score would be 12-3, I would have been very confident the Yankees won.

I have a very strong dislike for the Yankees. But I’m conflicted about what I should expect from them. The age old baseball wisdom is that good pitching beats good hitting in the playoffs, and the Indians simply have the better pitching in this series. But the Yankees’ recent results, basically from the All Star game onward, has me fairly confident they can just outscore teams on their way to the World Series.

For whatever reason, I don’t think the all offense strategy can win a World Series, but I really think they can get there playing that way. But game one makes me think a little differently about that. I sincerely hope the Indians just put a solid three game whopping on the Yanks, maybe outscoring them 22-7 or something over the course of the series. That would be sweet.