HBT: 4 games in 4 days? Yankees are dead

No, the Yankees probably weren?t beating the Tigers four times in five days either. Still, Wednesday?s rainout made the assignment that much tougher.

- Because they?re playing four games in four days, the Yankees have lost the ability to pitch Game 4 starter CC Sabathia on three days? rest in Game 7. At best, he?ll be available for a couple of innings out of the pen. Their Game 7 options would be Phil Hughes and his achy back, David Phelps, Derek Lowe or perhaps someone not on the roster. They?d have the option of disabling Hughes and activating Ivan Nova, though that would mean losing Hughes for the World Series.

- The Tigers, on the other hand, suffer from no such problems there. Their Game 4 starter, Max Scherzer, wasn?t a candidate to come back and pitch later in the series. Justin Verlander would start Game 7 on four days? rest.

- One of the things that makes it more difficult to reel off a winning streak in the postseason is that teams often have to use up their quality relievers to get their wins. In Games 3 and 4 against the Orioles, the Yankees had Rafael Soriano throw 3 1/3 innings and David Robertson throw three innings. They may well need similar efforts from those two if they hope to win Games 4 and 5 against the Tigers. Now with no days off between Games 5 and 6, the Yankees will likely head back to New York with a tired pen if they do somehow manage to survive.

- Detroit?s pen, on the other hand, just earned a day off for unexpected ace in Phil Coke. Coke said he?d be ready to go tonight regardless, but after throwing 3 2/3 innings the previous four days, he probably needed the little break.

OK, so that?s pretty minor. The Game 7 issue looks like a backbreaker, though.If they could find out a way to eke out wins the next two days, the Yankees? chances wouldn?t have looked so bad with Hiroki Kuroda and Sabathia back in the Bronx. Instead, it?d now be TBA versus Verlander.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/17/if-the-yankees-werent-doomed-before-they-are-now/related/

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