The New York Yankees have had a number of the greatest reduction pitchers and closers in baseball historical past, together with presumably the best nearer to ever do it in Mariano Rivera.
Their present nearer state of affairs feels a great distance from that legacy of success this season and the Yankees bought one other reminder of it on Sunday evening in a 3-2 extra-innings loss to the Detroit Tigers.
It was throughout that recreation that nearer Clay Holmes blew his league-leading tenth save of the season, giving up a 1-0 lead within the backside of the ninth inning to ship the sport to additional innings. After the Yankees scored a run within the high of the tenth, Mark Leiter Jr. surrendered two runs within the backside of the inning to seal up the walk-off loss.
If 10 blown saves looks like rather a lot in a single season, that’s as a result of it’s. It’s a quantity that the Yankees haven’t seen in practically 40 years. Holmes is the primary Yankee to file 10 blown saves in a season since Dave Righetti had 13 through the 1987 season.
