His counterpart, Max Scherzer, no-hit the Yanks through five, then handed it off to Detroit’s bullpen with two out in the sixth as the Tigers won their 11th AL pennant.
– It's a tough night to be a Yankees fan. The Detroit Tigers thumped the Yanks 8-1 tonight to sweep the ALCS and advance to the World Series. How bad was it? The Yankees not only failed to win a game, they never even led one, points out the New York Times. "Mowed Down in Motown," says the headline in the New York Post, which notes that this is the first postseason sweep of the Yankees since 1976. "Motown and Out!" says the Daily News, whose story pronounces the sweep "embarrassing." Maybe worse than the hometown abuse is Tom Gage's line in the Detroit News that the Tigers "stepped over the pebble-sized obstacle the Yankees proved to be." The Tigers will face the winner of the Giants-Cardinals series, and Bleacher Report has plenty more on that series as well the Tigers-Yankees here.