NEW YORK -- Masahiro Tanaka would never say the student has become the master, but Yu Darvish would.
As Tanaka, the New York Yankees right-hander, prepares to take the mound Thursday night in a pivotal Game 4 against the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series, Darvish knows his guidance is no longer necessary.
"If anything, Tanaka has posted better numbers in the postseason than myself, so I don't think I have much advice to give him," Darvish told ESPN. "It may be because his sense of personal responsibility is strong, and he competes with the mentality of going to kill his opponent.