The New York Yankees have had a number of the greatest reduction pitchers and closers in baseball historical past, together with presumably the best nearer to ever do it in Mariano Rivera.
Their present nearer scenario feels a great distance from that legacy of success this season and the Yankees obtained one other reminder of it on Sunday night time in a 3-2 extra-innings loss to the Detroit Tigers.
It was throughout that sport that nearer Clay Holmes blew his league-leading tenth save of the season, giving up a 1-0 lead within the backside of the ninth inning to ship the sport to additional innings. After the Yankees scored a run within the high of the tenth, Mark Leiter Jr. surrendered two runs within the backside of the inning to seal up the walk-off loss.
If 10 blown saves looks as if quite a bit in a single season, that’s as a result of it’s. It’s a quantity that the Yankees haven’t seen in practically 40 years. Holmes is the primary Yankee to report 10 blown saves in a season since Dave Righetti had 13 through the 1987 season.
