Derek Jeter breaks ankle in Yankees' loss to Tigers

NEW YORK — Raul Ibanez called it the polar opposite of emotions: boundless joy in the ninth inning for the New York Yankees and then devastation in the 12th inning. The Yankees scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Tigers, Ibanez hitting a dramatic two-run homer with two outs. Then not only did the Yankees lose the game three innings later when the Tigers scored two runs, they also lost shortstop Derek Jeter for the remainder of the season with a fractured left ankle. “There is disappointment that we didn’t win the game. There is disappointment that our captain and our leader went down for the rest of the year,” manager Joe Girardi said after the 6-4 loss.The New York Yankees lost the AL championship series opener and their captain when Derek Jeter broke his left ankle just after Delmon Young doubled home the go-ahead run in the 12th inning of the Detroit Tigers' thrilling, excruciating, bizarre 6-4 victory last night. New York's Raul Ibanez hit another stunning game-tying home run during a four-run rally in the ninth, but that was just the start of the dramatics in another thriller of a postseason already filled with them. The New York Yankees lost the AL championship series opener and their captain when Derek Jeter broke his left ankle moments after Detroit’s Delmon Young doubled home the go-ahead run in the 12th inning, giving the Tigers a bizarre 6-4 win Saturday night. In a game of wild swings and wild swings of emotion, the Tigers took a 4-0 lead into the ninth before Raul Ibanez struck again, hitting a tying, two-run homer with two outs that turned a somber crowd into a delirious one. And then came a little grounder up the middle that devastated the Yankees and their fans, who saw their leader writhing on the ground, screaming in pain.