The Yankees and Twins square off in the ALDS for the 2nd straight season. The Yankees (101-61, AL East winners by 3 games) knocked out Minnesota (92-70, AL Central champions by 8 games) in 4 games. But the Twins look to Johan Santana as their trump card. In Game 1 at the Bronx, Santana pitched seven shutout innings. While he did allow baserunners aplenty, he was aided by five double plays. Jacque Jones' home run was all Santana needed as the Twins took the opener, 2-0. Then, in Game 2, the Twins scored two in the 8th to tie the game at 5-5. However, Corey Koskie's RBI double was a ground rule one that otherwise would've put the Twins ahead. Still tied in the 12th, Torii Hunter went deep to put MIN ahead, 6-5. Two more outs, and the Twins will go home up 2-0 in games. But Joe Nathan, in his third inning of work, walked two batters. Then, A-Rod got his 4th hit of the game on an RBI double that also was a ground-rule one. After an intentional walk, Matsui drove in the game winner with a sacrifice fly and a 7-6 Yankees' win. Tied at 1, the Yankees rode the momentum to an easy 8-4 win in Game 3 at the Metrodome as Jeter and Matsui each had three hits to aid Kevin Brown, who allowed only one run in 6 innings. In Game 4, Santana allowed only one run in 5 innings of work on three days' rest. The Twins jumped to a 5-1 lead. It stayed that way into the 8th, where the Yankees scored a run. Then, with two on, Ruben Sierra took Juan Rincon deep to even the game and quiet the decibel level. In the 11th, A-Rod doubled, stole third and scored on a wild pitch to make it 6-5 Yankees. Mariano Rivera, in his 2nd inning, shut out MIN 1-2-3 to win the series 3 games to 1. And the much-anticipated (or pre-determined) ALCS was set: Yankees and Red Sox will square off once again. Better put the coffee on as well as the boxing gloves.
7:25 Terrible break for the Twins, as that pitch went to a ground rule double. That would have given the Twins the lead with Nathan not having to pitch so many innings in game 2. Yankees will have a similar terrible ground rule double break in the ALCS game 5 in Fenway with Tony Clark hitting. Twins also had a similar terrible break in the 2009 ALDS in Yankee Stadium 3, closely similar to this. - This is what MLB needed = to have AROD playing meaningful September games and postseason games, after being somewhat forgotten in 2001-2002-2003. - One thing about the Yankees during their Division Series era of 1995-2004, is that they hit MANY CLUTCH HOME RUNS in the postseason. In this Division Series, Ruben Sierra with the clutch home run in game 4.
And the Yankees domination of the Twins in the postseason continues: 2003 Division Series 2004 Division Series 2009 Division Series 2010 Division Series 2017 AL Wild Card Game 2019 Division Series
The ALDS showed how flawed the 04 team was. The bullpen was exhausted by August because of the horrible starting pitching. Offense went cold at the worst time.
5:15 Now thats an interesting stat = 2004 Twins made the postseason with no one having 90 RBI But one thing about the Twins from 2001-2010 is that they played amazing team defense
Arod was literally raking in the postseason with the Yanks up until game 5 of the 04 ALCS. In game 4 he hit the two run shot to put the yanks of 2-0 in that game. I remember literally thinking, this is awesome. All that money was well worth spent and the Yanks are about to sweep the Red Sox. Boy was I freaking wrong lmao. Arod literally disappeared game 5 of the 04 ALCS until 2009 lol
I say this all the time. A lot of people don't believe it when you tell them that not only was A-Rod a good postseason hitter prior to Game 5 of the 2004 ALCS, but he was a CLUTCH player as well. Even with Seattle he had good playoff runs, including one against the Yankees. In this series alone he was robbed of a go-ahead home run in Game 1, got three big hits in Game 2 and got the big hit and stolen base that iced the series in Game 4. I was thinking the same thing as a kid at the time, this guy is going to be amazing for us. The first 4 games of the ALCS made the trade look even better, then the bottom inexplicably fell out.
The Twins homefield advantage only works when they are in the World Series and during the regular season. Twins are 11-1 in World Series home games, with their only loss coming against Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers in game 7 of the 1965 World Series, when Koufax threw a complete-game-shut-out-gem with 10 strikeouts on 2 days rest.
The game 2 loss still hurts neatly 20 years later. If the Twins win that game they would have had a good chance to close out at home. Although the Red Sox/Yankees ALCS in 2004 was memorable with the 0-3 comeback one wonders what the Twins could have done against Boston.
3:00 Bottom screen, Sheffield admits that he unknowingly used a PED cream. 2004 is the final MLB season without PED testing, with 2005 being the first season to test for PED
And it's back to the ALCS, or as many call it "the Yankees Invitational" Should be, regardless of opponent, at least a sweep, either straight up or gentleman's.
and it was gonna be Brad Radke on short rest in game 5. Lohse was another option for game 5, but he pitched out of the bullpen in game 4. Lohse was supposed to start game 4, but with being down 2-1, they sent Johan on short rest in game 4.
Rough game 3 for Tori Hunter 12:50 Horrendous decision by Hunter to make the first out at third base and down by 6 runs, Matsui threw him out. 13:12 Hunter aiding Matsui on the home run the next inning
I feel you on that. 04 ALCS still hurts to this day. Even more than the 01 World Series. Just because it was Boston, we could’ve swept them, we were the big bad evil empire spending like crazy to bring in Arod, Sheffield, and all of them. And that spending was paying off up until the bottom of the ninth in game 4 😢
game 1 was their last post season win. I wont watch the rest of the video. They should of been up 2-0. nathan blew a save. it crushed my 12 year old heart
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If there was an LDS MVP, A-Rod would have been this series’ choice
Johan Santana’s game 1 against THAT Yankee lineup was an exclamation point to his Cy Young season
Gardy letting Joe Nathan pitch a third inning in game 2 was maybe the biggest mistake he ever made.
Since Giambi’s walkoff grand slam in 2002, Yankee Stadium has been Minnesota’s Amityville Horror
Shame that rookie catcher Joe Mauer was mostly injured in 2004; it would have been fun seeing him this 2004 postseason
The Yankees and Twins square off in the ALDS for the 2nd straight season. The Yankees (101-61, AL East winners by 3 games) knocked out Minnesota (92-70, AL Central champions by 8 games) in 4 games. But the Twins look to Johan Santana as their trump card.
In Game 1 at the Bronx, Santana pitched seven shutout innings. While he did allow baserunners aplenty, he was aided by five double plays. Jacque Jones' home run was all Santana needed as the Twins took the opener, 2-0.
Then, in Game 2, the Twins scored two in the 8th to tie the game at 5-5. However, Corey Koskie's RBI double was a ground rule one that otherwise would've put the Twins ahead. Still tied in the 12th, Torii Hunter went deep to put MIN ahead, 6-5. Two more outs, and the Twins will go home up 2-0 in games. But Joe Nathan, in his third inning of work, walked two batters. Then, A-Rod got his 4th hit of the game on an RBI double that also was a ground-rule one. After an intentional walk, Matsui drove in the game winner with a sacrifice fly and a 7-6 Yankees' win.
Tied at 1, the Yankees rode the momentum to an easy 8-4 win in Game 3 at the Metrodome as Jeter and Matsui each had three hits to aid Kevin Brown, who allowed only one run in 6 innings.
In Game 4, Santana allowed only one run in 5 innings of work on three days' rest. The Twins jumped to a 5-1 lead. It stayed that way into the 8th, where the Yankees scored a run. Then, with two on, Ruben Sierra took Juan Rincon deep to even the game and quiet the decibel level. In the 11th, A-Rod doubled, stole third and scored on a wild pitch to make it 6-5 Yankees. Mariano Rivera, in his 2nd inning, shut out MIN 1-2-3 to win the series 3 games to 1.
And the much-anticipated (or pre-determined) ALCS was set: Yankees and Red Sox will square off once again. Better put the coffee on as well as the boxing gloves.
7:25 Terrible break for the Twins, as that pitch went to a ground rule double. That would have given the Twins the lead with Nathan not having to pitch so many innings in game 2.
Yankees will have a similar terrible ground rule double break in the ALCS game 5 in Fenway with Tony Clark hitting.
Twins also had a similar terrible break in the 2009 ALDS in Yankee Stadium 3, closely similar to this.
- This is what MLB needed = to have AROD playing meaningful September games and postseason games, after being somewhat forgotten in 2001-2002-2003.
- One thing about the Yankees during their Division Series era of 1995-2004, is that they hit MANY CLUTCH HOME RUNS in the postseason. In this Division Series, Ruben Sierra with the clutch home run in game 4.
And the Yankees domination of the Twins in the postseason continues:
2003 Division Series
2004 Division Series
2009 Division Series
2010 Division Series
2017 AL Wild Card Game
2019 Division Series
6:04 That was a BLAST by Jeter. I never knew he had centerfield home run power
Incredible to think the Yankees were 2 outs away from going to the Metrodome down 0-2
The ALDS showed how flawed the 04 team was. The bullpen was exhausted by August because of the horrible starting pitching. Offense went cold at the worst time.
5:15 Now thats an interesting stat = 2004 Twins made the postseason with no one having 90 RBI
But one thing about the Twins from 2001-2010 is that they played amazing team defense
Game 4 was Javy Vasquez’ 2004 season after the All Star break in a nutshell: give up a lot of runs, bailed out by Yankee bats
They thought he and Brown could Replace Clemens and Pettitte. If the Yankees keep one of them, Yanks sweep Boston, curse remains alive.
Kevin Brown looking like the Kevin Brown we remember from October 1998
Until the ALCS when his back gave out.
With the Toronto Maple Leafs finally off the hook, the Twins have North America’s longest playoff win drought
The Detroit Lions have the longest Playoff Win Drought in Professional Sports.
Arod was literally raking in the postseason with the Yanks up until game 5 of the 04 ALCS. In game 4 he hit the two run shot to put the yanks of 2-0 in that game. I remember literally thinking, this is awesome. All that money was well worth spent and the Yanks are about to sweep the Red Sox. Boy was I freaking wrong lmao. Arod literally disappeared game 5 of the 04 ALCS until 2009 lol
I say this all the time. A lot of people don't believe it when you tell them that not only was A-Rod a good postseason hitter prior to Game 5 of the 2004 ALCS, but he was a CLUTCH player as well. Even with Seattle he had good playoff runs, including one against the Yankees. In this series alone he was robbed of a go-ahead home run in Game 1, got three big hits in Game 2 and got the big hit and stolen base that iced the series in Game 4. I was thinking the same thing as a kid at the time, this guy is going to be amazing for us. The first 4 games of the ALCS made the trade look even better, then the bottom inexplicably fell out.
All this series did was prove how flawed this Yankee team was.
@@Surfer041 oh for sure. Each game the Twins could’ve easily won.
@@sandman4115 Yankees should have lost in 4. I've been a Yankee fan since 84
@@Surfer041 i actually would’ve taken that instead of a collapse to the Sox lol
8:04 Nice batflip / battoss by Tori Hunter
Christian Guzman (Twins shortstop) is now a free agent, and he will sign with the Nationals in the offseason.
If Minnesota won game 162 vs Cleveland, would have been interesting to see how they fared vs the Red Sox with HFA
As a baseball fan i have no clue why gardenhire pullled santana after 5. As a redsox fan i say THANK U...
The Twins homefield advantage only works when they are in the World Series and during the regular season.
Twins are 11-1 in World Series home games, with their only loss coming against Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers in game 7 of the 1965 World Series, when Koufax threw a complete-game-shut-out-gem with 10 strikeouts on 2 days rest.
2:24 It wont be the only reversed call in Yankee Stadium this 2004 postseason (game 6 2004 ALCS , twice in that game)
Series was stolen
The game 2 loss still hurts neatly 20 years later. If the Twins win that game they would have had a good chance to close out at home. Although the Red Sox/Yankees ALCS in 2004 was memorable with the 0-3 comeback one wonders what the Twins could have done against Boston.
Jeesh rivera bllew a save in this series too
3:00 Bottom screen, Sheffield admits that he unknowingly used a PED cream. 2004 is the final MLB season without PED testing, with 2005 being the first season to test for PED
And it's back to the ALCS, or as many call it "the Yankees Invitational"
Should be, regardless of opponent, at least a sweep, either straight up or gentleman's.
A sweep? Not with that shaky pitching
@@chrisuncleahmadYankees had them dead to rights. Even with shaky pitching, Yanks had the series won about 7 times in games 4 and 5.
Those were crushing yankee losses
2:37 wont be the last call overturned against the yankees this postseason
If the Twins won game 4, who would’ve been NY’s game 5 starter?
Mike Mussina would've started on regular rest.
and it was gonna be Brad Radke on short rest in game 5.
Lohse was another option for game 5, but he pitched out of the bullpen in game 4.
Lohse was supposed to start game 4, but with being down 2-1, they sent Johan on short rest in game 4.
Pictured: The Twins last playoff win, and the beginning of the 18 game playoff losing streak.
Which mayyyybe will end this year.
Twins did win a game 163 for the AL Central against the Tigers in 2009.
@hmhm856 yeah but that counts as a regular season game
Now in 2023 vs. Blue Jays
It did!
Well those yankees sure look unstoppable...and we know boston will never beat them when it matters
Yankees beat Twins in a postseason 6 times
I truly feel bad for Minnesota they do not fair well against the yanks In the Postseason smh...
A lot of postseason stars will become future Mets (Beltran, Santana, Pedro, Sheffields corpse).
Sheff did hit number 500 with the Mets in Citi Field. So he had something left
@@hmhm856 A career 140 ops+ and 509 homers how is he not in cooperstown yet?
@@chicagodude8888 3:00 Bottom screen, thats why
@@hmhm856 First time I’ve heard that. There’s the answer
To think Minnesota almost swept the Yankees at home In August
They did
15:06 couldn't have hapoened to a nicer guy 😂
Rough game 3 for Tori Hunter
12:50 Horrendous decision by Hunter to make the first out at third base and down by 6 runs, Matsui threw him out.
13:12 Hunter aiding Matsui on the home run the next inning
Ha. As a Yankees fan…I wish they had lost this series.
I feel you on that. 04 ALCS still hurts to this day. Even more than the 01 World Series. Just because it was Boston, we could’ve swept them, we were the big bad evil empire spending like crazy to bring in Arod, Sheffield, and all of them. And that spending was paying off up until the bottom of the ninth in game 4 😢
@@sandman4115as a Yankee fan 01 hurts me. 04 just pisses me the hell off
14:51 bruh
That's the Metrodome white roof in a nutshell. You can NOT take your eye off the ball at this stadium.
Death
Taxes
And the Twins losing to the Yankees in the playoffs
8:46 Bottom screen = Sammy Sosa news, getting fined by the Cubs for leaving early on game 162
game 1 was their last post season win. I wont watch the rest of the video. They should of been up 2-0. nathan blew a save. it crushed my 12 year old heart
They did win that game 163 against the Tigers in 2009 for the AL Central though
I was 12 back in 04 too!! But the only difference I'm a redsox fan and boy was that alcs was one for the books
Brown and Vazquez should have been stoned after the ALCS.
16:06 Ruben...delicious