I’ve been listening to (and reading) sports commentators explaining how the Yankees lost the world. According to them the Yankees are doing everything wrong. Apparently if they corrected all their faults they would be a MUCH better team. Enough silliness! Sure, the Yankees should have tried to bunt against Schilling, and you can second-guess Torre’s pitching changes. But the facts are these:
There is luck in baseball. The Yankees do not own all the luck.
They came close to winning anyway.
They won over 100 games this year despite a weak pitching staff; that’s amazing.
They had to beat the only team that knows how to hit Mariano Rivera.
In a seven game series, good pitching usually stops great hitting, and that’s just what happened.
So why did the Red Sox have to make it look so difficult?
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