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Yankees and the Dodgers tonight, a game five.

And that hasn't happened since 1970

when a team is up three games to nothing to force a game five and if the Yankees win tonight it's never happened

in the 25 times that a team has got up 3-0 that there was a game six that was four so pretty intriguing stuff on the line tonight

it'll be Jack Flaherty on the mound for the Dodgers and for the Yankees it's

Garrett Cole and you know I hate

hate these phrases but I think in this way it does really apply

this is why you get gare coal for this game and you got him for game one too and

game one I thought he pitched well and the only thing that I thought fell short

was that he didn't fight with Boone to keep him in after 88 pitches.

So to me, that was a tacit approval that he was in fact done.

And I believe that Garrett might have told Boone between innings. I don't have much left. Let's go

badder or batter because 88 pitches should not be when you're lifted out of a World Series game.

But that was just game one, game one is huge this is an

elimination game where he has to be Garrett Cole and all that comes with

being the man now let me let me say this about pitchers.

I mean baseball in general I guess you can say is about mechanics but especially for a pitcher.

This is not football or hockey where you know what you're 50% but you go out there and you got it and you do

everything you can't sometimes that's the worst thing you can do if you're a pitcher Michael if your

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