After getting shelled by the Tigers in Game 4 of the 2012 ALCS in Detroit, tiny voices in CC Sabathia’s head screamed he needed help for a drinking problem. He tuned them out.
This past Oct. 4, after a bender that turned a weekend in Baltimore into a 48-hour stretch in which the large lefty’s mind went blank, Sabathia finally understood he was an alcoholic in desperate need of immediate help.
That was a Sunday, and the Yankees were completing the regular season and preparing to host the Astros at Yankee Stadium two days later in the AL wild-card game.