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Originally Posted by tkret
No, sorry to disagree, but a team doesn't play it's best players prior to the post season if it doesn't have to. Why risk injury to the money players. The Yankees didn't keep the Sox out of post season; Boston kept themselves out by being unable to get the job done.
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I have to agree. Those "no name" pitchers had shut Tampa Bay out for most of the game. The Yanks have to do what's best for them, not what's best for the Red Sox. And at the end of the day, if the Red Sox didn't have the biggest September collapse in baseball history, they wouldn't have put themselves into the situation of relying on someone else to win for them. No matter what the Yanks did, if Boston would've won then their fate would have been in their own hands in a one game playoff. Don't blame the Yankee's relievers....blame Pappilbon for blowing the save and blame some questionable base running if you must blame anyone besides the fates.