New York — It's never nothing with these Tigers.
On a day when the pitching held up fairly well, on a day when the big hitters in the lineup delivered some clutch hits, on a day when they showed some real fight against one of the best teams in baseball, the defense buckled.
"They just outplayed us at the end of the game," manager AJ Hinch said after the Yankees completed the three-game sweep of the Tigers 5-4 on a 10th-inning sacrifice fly by Josh Donaldson. "They out-executed us. They're a winning team. And at the end of the game it gets even more magnified when you are running out of outs and you're missing some opportunities.