Fansided · Oct 26, 2019
Yankees: 3 things we learned from 2019 ALCS defeat
Yes, we are all in mourning. Yankees fans from New York to California and around the planet are grieving the team’s 4-2 loss to the Houston Astros in the ALCS. What did we learn from the team’s performance in the ALCS?
To be sure, the ALCS was a very close and highly competitive series between two MLB juggernauts (Yankees and Astros). The cliché, “it could have gone either way,” definitely applies here.
Analysts have provided varying explanations as to why the Astros won the series, and the Yanks did not. There seems to be some consensus that the ‘Stros were simply able to do the little things better and at the right time. This is generally correct from what I witnessed.