With a pitcher for the NYY with THAT caliber.........ANY batter Cleveland sends up favor the Yankees........just like Mariano Rivera.......yes, you can hit them.......but it is rare....................and a matchup that def. favored the Yankees....down by 1........................taking 103 mile or so pitches.............and striking out is playing passive...................and the call to send or not send the runner.....would have come from the Manager............with a fast base runner............what do you have to lose............??  Yes the catcher would throw you out or Chapman might have caught you at 1st.......but to me..........the percentage play........as John Madden would call it.......would have been to send the runner.......after all you HAD to score ....to win it.........and if the Indians had won game 3.............they would have been playing for the pennant in the ALCS............which is best of 7.........

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Oct 10, 2017 - A year after nearly losing Game 7 of the World Series in Cleveland, Aroldis Chapman is back in the same ... Aroldis Chapman pitching in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the division series against the Indians. ... Oct. 10, 2017.

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