Bug to the future: Yanks may see midges again

NEW YORK -- Their fans inactive bugged by what happened successful 2007, the New York Yankees could look pesky midges again erstwhile the American League Division Series moves to Cleveland this weekend.

The flying insects memorably swarmed pitcher Joba Chamberlain during Game 2 of the 2007 Division Series astatine what was past called Jacobs Field. The bugs returned past play astatine adjacent FirstEnergy Stadium for an NFL crippled betwixt the Browns and Los Angeles Chargers.

Cleveland volition big the Yankees connected Saturday nighttime for Game 3 of the ALDS astatine what's present called Progressive Field.

Midges hatch on Lake Erie respective times a year.

"I was astatine the Browns crippled connected Sunday aft the wild-card bid and they were retired successful afloat unit and it was the mediate of the day. So I tin lone ideate erstwhile we get back," Cleveland Guardians Game 3 starter Triston McKenzie said Friday. "When you effort to swat them away, they don't attraction and they volition onshore connected you anyway. I don't adjacent cognize however to explicate it. That's the champion mode to explicate it. They volition onshore connected you.

"You tin termination them and they volition conscionable enactment there."

Cleveland reliever Bryan Shaw said the midges are "all implicit your car" aft games, but there's "nothing to truly do."

Flustered by the flies, Chamberlain threw a brace of chaotic pitches that allowed Cleveland to necktie the people successful the eighth inning. The Indians went connected to an 11-inning triumph and a four-game bid victory.

Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens said helium would person pulled the squad disconnected the field.