Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
11%
2 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
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Through three postseason games, what looked to be a weak link for the Yankees has not been.
asserted
looked → look → Yankees
For the first four months of the season and right up until Aug. 3, the Yankees were expected to upgrade a bullpen that looked as if it needed help, and then they didn’t.
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they → expect → help
In a stunner, GM Brian Cashman subtracted rather than added, putting his faith in the incumbents and mostly internal options.
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Cashman → subtract → incumbents
Try it freeMany of those options did not work out.
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Try → try → options
Clarke Schmidt pitched in one game before returning to the injured list.
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Schmidt → pitch → list
Luis Gil’s stuff did not play up.
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stuff → play → ?
They brought in Michael Fulmer, who did not pitch himself onto the playoff roster, and John Schreiber, who did not pitch himself into playoff leverage.
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who → bring → leverage
And yet through these first three games — two wins over the Red Sox and a loss to the Rays — the Yankees bullpen has allowed one run on two hits and three walks in 8 ²/₃ innings.
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bullpen → allow → innings
David Bednar and Paul Blackburn have remained untouchable.
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Bednar → remain → ?
Brent Headrick’s stuff may have taken a step back, but he has still been effective in limited time.
uncertain
he → take → time
And perhaps the most encouraging takeaway from Saturday’s 1-0 loss was Ryan Weathers looking strong in a nine-pitch sixth inning that featured three groundouts to first base.
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that → look → base
“Really good to see Weathers come in there and just throw strikes, induce weak contact, have a clean, efficient, short inning,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday of Weathers, who missed six weeks with a flexor strain and returned as a reliever rather than a starter.
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who → see → reliever
“Again, I think he can be massive for us in the postseason.”
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he → think → postseason
After the loss, Weathers said he felt normal, healthy and strong enough that he believed he would be available Monday on one day of rest.
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he → say → rest
The Yankees could use him not just because he had emerged as the season wore on — posting a 1.29 ERA in his final six starts before the injury — but because Boone has shown less faith in an overworked Headrick.
uncertain
Boone → use → Headrick
The team’s top lefty all season has only recorded two playoff outs, the second of which came Saturday.
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second → record → which
After Blackburn (1 ²/₃ scoreless innings) walked Junior Caminero with two outs in the eighth, Headrick entered to face Liam Hicks and walked him.
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Headrick → walk → him
With a fastball that averaged 92.6 mph — and had averaged 94.1 mph during the regular season — Headrick induced a hard-hit groundout from Chandler Simpson to escape.
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Headrick → average → Simpson
“Pitching absolutely did their job really, really well,” said Boone, who watched the lineup become the biggest problem instead.
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lineup → do → job
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