News Comment #6

Yankees surge in first game of the AL Wild Card Series!

Playoff baseball! the best time of the year is here! The New York Yankees started their 3 game series against the Cleveland Indians Monday night. Yankees would look dominate the whole 9 innings with great pitching from ace Gerrit Cole and major power from the best offense in baseball.

Monday night, the Yankees did something that wasn’t done all year in baseball. The best pitcher in the MLB (Shane Bieber of the Indians), gave up 7 runs, which was more than his first 5 starts combined this year. The stout yankees offense was hot in the batters box last night scoring 12 runs.

With the victory last night, the Yankees are one game away from advancing to the next playoff series. A win in Cleveland means a better chance to punch their ticket to the World Series!

Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole pitched 7 innings and struck out 13 batters! Cole set the record for most strikeouts in a playoff game without walking anybody. That’s an amazing accomplishment for Coles first season as a Yankee.

The Yankees offense looked great last night and look to be improving. With a healthy lineup, the Yankees are the best offense in baseball when in comes down to statistics.

Game 2 starts Tuesday night, with a win, the yankees advance in the playoffs.

The audience is for mostly people involved in baseball and the MLB. Sports fans might also look at this because its a playoff game. Yankees fans were especially drawn to this article.

This article had a good lead. You could tell the writer was a little bit of a yankees fan. The article gave good information about the game and went into details about the Yankees.

I think the article could have given more stats. The writer describes key moments of the game really well but more office stats could have been helpful when reading. It left me with a lot of questions.

Yankees Pummel Shane Bieber and Take Advantage Over Cleveland