Detroit Tigers 4 New York Yankees 8 (October 3, 2006)

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The 9-time AL East champions take on the AL Wild Card team in the 2006 American League Division Series to determine who advances to the League Championship where they will battle for the pennant.

INNING 1

Tigers Batting
Chien-Ming Wang pitching

Curtis Granderson batting: foul, foul, ball, foul, fly out to left field
Placido Polanco batting: ball, ball, ground out pitcher -> first
Sean Casey batting: strike looking, ground out second -> first
Yankees 0, Tigers 0

Yankees Batting
Nate Robertson pitching

Johnny Damon batting: ball, strike looking, ground out second -> first
Derek Jeter batting: foul, base hit to left
Bobby Abreu batting: ball, strike looking, ground into fielders choice, Jeter out at second
Gary Sheffield batting: strike looking, ball, ball, ball, foul, fly out to center
Yankees 0, Tigers 0

INNING 2

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Magglio Ordonez batting: strike swinging, double off the left-center wall
Carlos Guillen batting: ball blocked in dirt, ball, ball, foul, foul, walk
Ivan Rodriguez batting: ball (show bunt), strike swinging, Ordonez caught stealing third (1-2-5), strike swinging, ball, strike out swinging
Craig Monroe batting: ground out shortstop -> first
Yankees 0, Tigers 0

Yankees batting
Robertson pitching

Jason Giambi batting: hit by pitch
Alex Rodriguez batting: strike looking, ball, ball blocked in dirt, strike looking, ball, foul, foul, line out to second
Hideki Matsui batting: pop out to left
Jorge Posada batting: foul, base hit to left center, Giambi to second
Robinson Cano batting: ground out third -> first
Yankees 0, Tigers 0

INNING 3

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Marcus Thames batting: foul, foul, double down left field line
Brandon Inge batting: pulled bunt strike, foul, ground out third -> first
Granderson batting: strike looking, ball, base hit to right, Thames to third
Polanco batting: pick off attempt (safe), ball, ground into double play, shortstop -> second -> first, Granderson out at second
Yankees 0, Tigers 0

Yankees batting
Robertson pitching

Damon batting: strike looking, pulled bunt ball, ball, foul, infield hit (pitcher tumbles at field attempt)
Jeter batting: strike looking, pick off attempt (safe), strike swinging, ball, ball, ball, double to left center, Damon to third
Abreu batting: check strike, ball, fly ball double to right center, Damon scores, Jeter scores
Sheffield batting: base hit to right center, Abreu scores
Giambi batting: pick off attempt (safe), strike looking, strike looking, pick off attempt (safe), ball, foul, foul, HOME RUN, Sheffield scores
Rodriguez batting: ball, base hit to left
Matsui batting: ball, check strike, fly out to left center
Posada batting: pick off attempt (safe), ball, ball, ball, fly out to right
Cano batting: strike looking, fly out to left
Yankees 5, Tigers 0

INNING 4

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Casey batting: strike swinging, strike swinging, ball, fly out to left center
Ordonez batting: pop out to right
Giullen batting: strike looking, ball, double down left field line
Rodriguez batting: strike swinging, strike swinging, foul, ball, ball, foul, strike out swinging
Yankees 5, Tigers 0

Yankees batting
Robertson pitching

Damon batting: strike looking, fly out to left center
Jeter batting: base hit to right
Abreu batting: ball, ball, strike looking, ball, Jeter caught stealing in rundown, fly out to left
Yankees 5, Tigers 0

INNING 5

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Monroe batting: ball, strike swinging, ball, HOME RUN
Thames batting: check strike, ball, ball, ground out shortstop -> first
Inge batting: base hit to right
Granderson batting: strike swinging, ball, fly out to left
Polanco batting: ball, fly double down right field line, Inge scores
Casey batting: ball, base hit to left center, Polanco scores
Ordonez batting: strike looking, ball blocked in dirt, foul, (great catch by right field ball boy), strike out swinging
Yankees 5, Tigers 3

Yankees batting
Robertson pitching

Sheffield batting: ball, ball, strike looking, ball, pop out to deep second
Giambi batting: strike looking, ball, foul, hit by pitch
Rodriguez batting: strike looking, strike swinging, ball, strike out looking
Matsui batting: foul, ball, foul, ball (Giambi steals second), ground out pitcher -> first
Yankees 5, Tigers 3

INNING 6

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Guillen batting: ball, ball, ball, strike looking, strike looking, ground out second -> first
Rodriguez batting: ball, strike swinging, ground out shortstop -> first
Monroe batting: strike swinging, ball, ball, ground out third -> first
Yankees 5, Tigers 0

Yankees batting
Robertson batting

Posada batting: check strike, ground out third -> first
Cano batting: ground out third -> first (pitcher neary tumbles at field attempt)
Damon batting: foul, foul, ball, foul, base hit to left
Jeter batting: ball, double to left, Damon to third
Abreu: base hit to right, Damon scores, Jeter scores

Jason Grilli replaces Robertson

Sheffield batting: pick off attempt (wild throw) Abreu to second, ball, ground out shortstop -> first
Yankees 7, Tigers 3

INNING 7

Tigers batting
Wang pitching

Thames batting: strike swinging, check strike, ball, strike out swinging
Inge batting: strike looking, ball, check foul, foul, ball, ground out second -> first

Mike Myers replaces Wang (standing ovation)

Granderson batting: ball, drag bunt strike, strike swinging, ball, foul tip, HOME RUN

Scott Proctor replaces Myers (crowd boos)

Polanco batting: strike looking, base hit to right center
Casey batting: ball, ball, strike swinging, foul, fly ball hit to right, Polanco to third
Ordonez batting: pop foul, pop out to right center
Yankees 7, Tigers 4

Yankees batting
Jamie Walker replaces Robertson

Giambi batting: ball, strike looking, ball, ball, strike looking, walk
Rodriguez batting: foul, ball blocked in dirt, strike swinging, fly out to right
Matsui batting: foul, strike looking, ball, foul, pick off attempt (safe), ground into fielders choice, Giambi out at second
Posada batting: foul, base hit to center, Matsui to third
Cano batting: strike looking, strike swinging, ball, fly out to right
Yankees 7, Tigers 4

INNING 8

Tigers batting
Kyle Farnsworth replaces Proctor
Andy Phillips replaces Sheffield

Guillen batting: ball, ball, ball, walk
Rodriguez batting: ball, ball, strike looking, fly out to left
Monroe batting: ball, pick off attempt (safe), strike looking, ball, strike swinging, strike out looking
Thames batting: ball, ball, ball, strike looking, foul, foul, foul, pop out to deep shortstop
Yankees 7, Tigers 4

Yankees batting
Walker pitching

Damon batting: strike looking, ball, foul, ball, foul, foul, strike out looking
Jeter batting: ball, foul, HOME RUN (5-5 for the game) (curtian call)
Abreu batting: ball, ball, (crowd chants Derek Jeter!), ground out to first
Phillips batting: ball, strike swinging, foul, ball, fly out to deep center
Yankees 8, Tigers 4

INNING 9

Mariano River replaces Farnsworth
Tigers batting

Inge batting: ball, strike looking, ball, strike swinging, ball, pop out to first
Granderson batting: ball, strike looking, base hit to right
Polanco batting: ball, strike looking, ground into double play, second -> shortstop -> first

FINAL SCORE
Yankees 8, Tigers 4

Date

October 3, 2006

Yankeeography

1152 days ago

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I don't know how to seperate the different batters from the previous ones; ie the html break tag
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Yankeeography

1152 days ago

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OK, I got it, guess the HTML does work in here.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1152 days ago

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Jeter rocks! He's awesome! Now I see why all the bandwagon jumpers ride his gatorade flavored jock...

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Bball3345Draft Pick

1152 days ago

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Jeter for MVP!

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1152 days ago

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too late to vote for that (he already got my Cy Young and Rolaids Fireman of the Year vote though)

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Anonymous Fanatic #1

1152 days ago

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Jeter is the captain for a reason, captain clutch. Even the younger players on the team all look up to him. As far as your constant references to bandwagon, it get a little old. So, any good team or player you are not allowed to like? That is ridiculous. Who is your favorite team? The mets? Well, you're a bandwagon fan, a real fan would have stuck with the Dodgers. Bandwagon fan!!! Can't you even stick with one team. You like David Wright? What a bandwagon fan, you must have pictures of him up all over your house. Bandwagon fan.

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TartanVarsity Captain

1152 days ago

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I'd click on your profile to your fanboxes, but wait, you're anonymous. Liking them because they're good, or a good team is the definition of jumping on the bandwagon.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1152 days ago

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as a matter of fact... I am a fan of baseball, not any particular team. Team allegiances is for people who need to feel connected to something for glaring psychological inadequacies... Do you say "WE" when talking Yankees?

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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no, liking them all of a sudden is a bandwagon fan. i like them cause i live in ny and my father liked them and my grandfather liked them. i have been a fan since 1977. if you live in the city or near the city where they play that is your favorite team period. you are just a yankee hater, probably a democrat i am guessing.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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and the definition of a bandwagon fan, for those of you who do not understand. Any person who claims to like a team and follows them only when the win. A great example would be the boston red sox. living in ny, you never saw a red sox hat until about 4 years ago. so, either thousands of people all of sudden migrated to nyc or we have a lot of bandwagon fans. i would venture to guess that most red sox fans in nyc are met fans. the reason for this is simple, met fans hate the yankees more than they like their own team.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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NY fans happen to be some of the most loyal fans in the world. Besides the yankees, who dominates their sports leagues? I like the jets/rangers, they usually lose. So, am i a bandwagon fan of the jets? they suck, will always suck, but that's my team cause that is the local team. the rangers suck and i still like them. am i a bandwagon fan because they won the stanley cup in 1994? face it tartan, manny you guys throw around bandwagon cause you hate the yankees. get over it already it just shows how bitter you are and your hatred of the yankees. i for one love the fact that if you are not a yankee fan, that you hate them. look at the mets, yankee fans could care less about them, they are insignificant.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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And if you don't like that the yankees spend a lot of money on free agents, then collapse the number of mlb teams. get rid of the marlins, rangers, padres, brewers, mets. the yankees play by the rules that are dictated by mlb.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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All Met fans are bandwagon fans, all of them. There is no real fan base for the mets, they are all old Dodger fans. where were your fans when they sucked?

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1152 days ago

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Alot of drivel there... Does Logic play ole with you often? Fan since 1977 because of winning tradition, Pops and geography? Way to think for yourself, Anonymous...

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TartanVarsity Captain

1152 days ago

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It isn't that I hate the Yankees as a baseball team. I respect their accomplishments as an ogranization, and their great history. What I dislike is their uneducated fan base. I would be willing to wager that 80% of the people I see wearing a Yankees hat couldn't tell me their batting lineup, or their opening day starting pitchers. People are fans of the Yankees just because they are from New York, and don't actually follow anything that happens with them. Repeating the blah-blah they hear randomly on ESPN about how bad A-Rod is, while not actually knowing anything about the team or baseball for that matter. Its frustrating to listen to the drivel constantly. And your comments regarding the Mets just goes to prove this. Saying no one cares about them because they are "insignificant." The Mets play the Yankees every year, and not caring about your opponents is ignorance. That's like running a company without even recognizing your compeition. So yes, while not every Yankee fan is a bandwagon guy, many are bandwagon guys. If they Yankees didn't make the playoffs as often, or weren't as good, then many of their "fans", regardless of residency, would have never been their fans in the first place.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1152 days ago

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I am right there with you, T! How about the proportions to which they are willing to blow things out of... Every Yankee is the BEST EVER, right? I always say, I like the Yankees, not their fans!

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Anonymous Fanatic #3

1151 days ago

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I can tell you every starting line up AND their starting rotation from every pennant winning team. And besides, I have been a fan of the Yankees starting around the 80s, about the same time I got out of daipers.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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manny/tartan- give it up. all teams have die-hards and bandwagon fans. and yes liking a team because of geography and history does matter. most normal people pick their favorite teams based on geography, are both of you that clueless? if you pick your favorite team outside of your geography, you are definitely a bandwagon fan, period.

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Anonymous Fanatic #4

1152 days ago

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This should be an article of it's own: how indeed does one become to profess allegiance towards one team or another? What is the line btwn bandwagon vs. true/dedicated??? If geography is the deciding factor, what about fans from places where no team exists? Overseas for example?

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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i would say 99% of true baseball fans like their home team.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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the most logical way to pick your favorite baseball team is geography, they represent your city. in the olympics do you root for other countries against your own? i mean your arguments are beyond stupid.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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and manny you use the same line all the time. i don't hate the yankees, i hate their fans....what did some yankee fan hurt your feelings? poor manny, get over it. i don't hate the mets or their fans. i could care less about them really. i would rather it go back to true baseball where the al doesn't even play the nl in the regular season.

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Anonymous Fanatic #4

1152 days ago

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Tartan and Manny are to Yankees as Pnatt is to America. There's no winning this one af#2.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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amen af#3, amen indeed!!!

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TartanVarsity Captain

1152 days ago

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No, I agree, geography is a main facet in picking which team you like. I'm not arguing that at all. What I'm distasteful of is that the only thing many Yankees fans do know is that they play in NYC. While yes, many teams have diehards and bandwagon fans, the ratio/percentage (I did it Pnatt) of diehards to bandwagons is much higher for the Yankees. ESPN makes it very difficult to be a bandwagon fan of anyone other than the Yankees or Red Sox. I'm not disputing your legiance, obviously if you are on a sports site messaging back in forth, you're a good fan, or at least well intentioned. However, there are countless others that have no clue. It may be a biproduct of having such a large population, or being a stewing/melting pot, but fans of smaller markets have to work harder to be fans, all a Yankee fan has to do is reguritate ESPN and wear a ballcap.

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Anonymous Fanatic #4

1152 days ago

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So don't hate the playa hate the game! You say it yourself. It's not a devout Yank fan's fault that the team is overhyped beyond galore and attract thousands or millions more fans than other fans. I'm sure there are some idiotic Red fans out there, but you would have to look hard. Say 10-20% of any given team's fans are non-versed idiots who wear their caps for show or because they made the playoffs. 10-20% of yankee fans is like 1-2 million. 10-20% of red fans is like 10-20.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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well, now i understand more where you are coming from tartan. i will tell you i went to the 1995 playoffs mariners vs. yankees. that was the first time the yankees were in the playoffs for a long time. me and my friends were able to walk up to the stadium a few days before and buy tickets!! i would say that those two games in ny were the best baseball games (except game 6 1996) that i ever saw. i would also say that they were the loudest by far including all world championship seasons!!! the stadium was rocking because most of the fans were true fans and not corporate tickets.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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nice point af#3, nice point!! you must be a yankee fan? you going to any playoff games? i'm going tonight to see bronx bombers make history....

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1152 days ago

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hey- who here loves when ronan tynan sings "God Bless America"? Makes me proud to be an American and a baseball fan.

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Anonymous Fanatic #2

1151 days ago

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Without the Yankees, there would be no baseball.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

1151 days ago

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I guess there will be no World Series this year, then...

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Anonymous Fanatic #1

1151 days ago

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i guess there will be no world series. duh, good one manny. pretty good for a bandwagon met fan.

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