Last night marked the first time in a while that baseball left me exasperated. Funny enough, you probably have to go back to Game Two of the 2017 ALCS to find the last time I was so frustrated at how a game played out.
The parallels between those games are remarkable. Justin Verlander pitched well—if not dominantly—in both matchups, and Carlos Correa collected the walk-off hits in each of them. A professor I once had liked to say that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.
The difference between last night’s loss and the one from two autumns ago, however, is how the Yankees head back to New York with the series split.