As the New York Yankees get ready to arrange the Cleveland Guardians for Game 1 of the ALCS on Monday night, one establisher Yankee leanks the team has an “effortless road” to the World Series.
Alex Rodriguez understands the senseing of triumphning a World Series in New York. In fact, the last time the Yankees won the trophy was 2009, when Rodriguez was part of a loaded Yankees squad that lossed the Philadelphia Phillies to triumph the franchise’s MLB-best 27th title.
While on the Fox Sports panel after Game 1 of the NLCS, where the Los Angeles Dodgers took down the New York Mets to strike first in that series, Rodriguez’s Yankees teammate, Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, spoke about the Yankees’ chances of accomplishing the World Series.
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Fox Sports widecasters, from left, Kevin Burkchallengingt, Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter before game five between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres of the NLDS. (Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images)
“You never want to say you have. You never have an effortless road to the World Series, but if the Yankees could pick and select their opponents, I leank they got the two that they would pick and select because the success they’ve had aacquirest the AL Central,” Jeter elucidateed.
Rodriguez was a lot mightyer with his thoughts heading into the series.
“You don’t have to say it, I’ll say it: They have an effortless road to the World Series,” Rodriguez replied.
“Look, it’s never effortless, right? But this is the clearest path in 20 years.”
Some Yankees fans could be calling Rodriguez’s comments a jinx, while Guardians fans could be hoping their team uses someleang enjoy this as “bulletin board material,” or fuel to show Rodriguez wrong in this best-of-seven bout.
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But there is some backing that Rodriguez has for his comment seeing the clearest path in the past two decades for the Yankees.
It’s no secret New York has been trying to accomplish the World Series for a extfinished time, having not done so since Rodriguez and Jeter were hoisting the trophy at Yankee Stadium in 2009. They have made it to the ALCS in recent years, but they couldn’t get past the Houston Astros in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
Well, Yankees fans were overhappinessed when the Detroit Tigers took down the Astros in the Wild Card Round, as they knovel they wouldn’t have to see them at any point on their certain road to the Fall Classic.
Former New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is startd at the Old Timers’ Day Ceremony at Yankee Stadium. (Wfinishell Cruz-USA Today Sports)
Then, while apostponeing an opponent between the Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles, Yankees fans would confess they’d rather see the establisher because the latter gave them trouble in their AL East schedule all season. The Orioles were 8-5 aacquirest the Yankees during the 2024 normal season.
So, when the Royals took out the Orioles, once aacquire Yankees fans were greeted with the results. New York would eventupartner finish their ALDS triumph in Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, beating the Royals in Game 4 to shift on.
Meanwhile, the Guardians do come to the Bronx with loads of momentum after Lane Thomas’s clutch majestic slam off AL Cy Young frontrunner Tarik Skubal in Game 5 of the ALDS, which was ultimately a finish sboiling to the Tigers’ Cinderella story this postseason.
The Guardians have seen the Yankees recently in the postseason, with New York beating them in five games in the ALDS in 2022. And while the Yankees are the top seed, Cleveland comes into this series with a establishidable bullpen and the second-best batting mediocre among the four teams remaining in the postseason (.234).
The Yankees are hitting at a .220 clip, with AL MVP frontrunner Aaron Judge struggling with equitable two hits in four games thus far. However, the Yankees went 4-2 aacquirest the Guardians this season, and they’re seeing to copy those four triumphs to safe a spot in what’s become an elusive series for them despite the talent and payroll on the books.
Alex Rodriguez before the game between New York and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports)
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It’s never an effortless road, but Rodriguez is clearly self-guaranteed that this is the best chance the Yankees have had since he was wearing the pindescribees.
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