Archive for October, 2009
Yankees Earn Their Way Back to Baseball’s »
I liken my feeling prior to first pitch of Game Six last night to how Lindsay Lohan must feel on the eve of a mandatory probation hearing. Unjustly annoyed. Kind of dazed. Quite nervous. Thinking about what can be ingested to take the edge off things. I was annoyed because I knew the series should already be over. I was dazed because all those [...]
Backed by Rivera and Pettitte, Yankees Win Pennant »
Behind by two in the eighth inning with the speedy Chone Figgins on second base, Anaheim Angels’ slugger and future Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero took what may have been his final swing as a member of the franchise, slicing a cut fastball from New York Yankees famed closer Mariano Rivera into right field. Figgins sped around third and scored. [...]
Yankees Beat Bumbling Angels 5-2, Advance to World »
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim found out with the Minnesota Twins already knew. If you continue to make boneheaded baserunning plays, and continue to play horrific defense, you are going to lose in the playoffs. The New York Yankees beat the stumbling, bumbling Angels last night 5-2 to take their best-of-seven series 4-2 and advance to the [...]
World Series 2009 Prediction from WhatIfSports.com »
Our computer is on a roll. It correctly picked North Carolina basketball to win it all in the 2009 NCAA tournament , the 2009 Stanley Cup champion, the Lakers over the Magic in the 2009 NBA Finals , and the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLIII , (by four points). Now, we at WhatIfSports.com focus on baseball. Just as we did with those [...]
The Script Resurfaces: New York Yankees Head to the »
"...hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."- Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) I'd be lying if I told you I expected this. Throwing a lot of money at problems was nothing new for the New York Yankees of this decade and it never fixed anything before. Granted the Yankees of 2003 made it to the Fall [...]
East Coast Defeats West Coast, Wins Coastal World »
Fans of the West Coast Baseball Club were in tears and some despondent senior citizen diehards chose to immolate themselves after the East Coast Baseball Club won Game 11 of the Coastal World Series, 5-2, to win the Best-of-14 series eight games to three. Co-manager of the West Coast, Mike Scioscia, was defiant in defending his club's lack of [...]
ALCS Game Six: Six Years in the Making, Yanks’ »
He was as animated on the mound as we've ever seen him—and exactly the way we always remember him. For six-and-a-third innings and two-and-a-half hours Sunday night, Andy Pettitte turned back the clock yet again, as we've seen him do time and again in the most important of games, and gave the Yankees the victory they needed to advance to their [...]
Small Ball, Big Win: Yankees Bunt Their Way to 40th »
For five games, the Yankees mostly sat back and waited for home runs. Sometimes they came, like Alex Rodriguez's game-tying shot in the 11th inning of Game Two. And sometimes they didn't, like when the Bronx Bombers stranded 10 base runners in Game Five. But in their 5-2 American League Championship Series-clinching win on Sunday night, New [...]
Yankees-Angels ALCS: Andy Pettitte Pitches New York »
A rain delay forced Game Six from Saturday to Sunday night. There was no rain in the Bronx on Sunday, only a cold chill that absolutely nobody in New York was feeling. The Yankees and Angels came into Sunday night playing in Game Six of the ALCS, both teams with different agendas. For the Angels, a win would guarantee a Game Seven on Monday night [...]
World Series Table Is Set »
The Major League Baseball playoffs seem like they have lasted forever this year. I’m sure a lot of that is a result of the Diamondbacks being out of the postseason picture since May. It also doesn’t help that the Red Sox and the Yankees were both firmly in the picture, meaning we had to listen to their self-righteous fans belittle all the [...]