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Joe Girardi Overmanages, Angels Take Game Three. »
If you are going to be uptight, nervous, and over-manage in the postseason, you better win. Time and time again, New York Yankees manager has overmanaged in this postseason and the Yankees’ talent has bailed him out. Today, there was nobody to bail Girardi out. In the bottom of the 11th this afternoon in Anaheim, with the score tied at four, [...]
Los Angeles Angels-New York Yankees: Yankees Steal »
If you give an average team multiple chances to beat you, they will. If you give the New York Yankees multiple chances to beat you, they definitely will. The New York Yankees took advantage of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim leaving a small village (16 to be exact) on base and some more bad defense to beat the Angels 4-3 in 13 innings to take a [...]
Angels-Yankees: CC Sabathia Dominates Angels, Yankees »
Here is what I wrote in my American League Championship Series Preview and Prediction post: “But things are starting to break for the Yankees like they did in the 90’s. You can’t beat the unexplained. There will be a Joe Mauer foul ball or Nick Punto baserunning moment for the Angels in this series.” It took all of five batters for the [...]
American League Championship Series Preview and »
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. New York Yankees Best-of-seven series Game One: Friday, Oct. 16 7:57 ET. John Lackey vs. CC Sabathia Game Two: Saturday, Oct. 17 7:57 ET. Joe Saunders vs. AJ Burnett Game Three: Monday, Oct. 19 4:13 ET. Andy Pettitte vs. Jered Weaver Game Four: Tuesday, Oct. 20 7:57 ET. TBD vs. Scott Kazmir Game Five*: Thursday, [...]
Yankees-Twins: New York Sweeps, Advances to ALCS »
If you are a New York Yankees fan, you have to start feeling like there is a lot of late '90s magic going on with this team. When I say magic, I am not talking the clutch hitting from Alex Rodriguez or the brilliant pitching by Andy Pettitte. I am talking the egregious umpiring that always benefits the Yankees (Joe Mauer call in Game Two), teams [...]
Twins-Yankees: Mark Teixeira and Co. Steal Game Two »
The Minnesota Twins begged the New York Yankees to win Game Two of their American League Division Series last night at Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees took them up on their offer. The Yankees beat the Twins last night, 4-3 in 11 innings, on a walk-off home run by Mark Teixeira to give the Bronx Bombers a two-games-to-none advantage in their [...]
Yankees-Twins: New York Rolls, Wins Game One »
Everything went according to plan for the New York Yankees in Game One of their American League Division series against the Minnesota Twins. The Yankees got six-and-two-thirds solid innings from CC Sabathia, they used the long ball to their advantage like they have been all year, and even got Alex Rodriguez to contribute in their 7-2 victory [...]
Three Reasons Why the New York Yankees Clinched a »
With the Texas Rangers losing to the Oakland A’s 9-1 last night, the New York Yankees became the first team in baseball to clinch a playoff spot. With that last sentence, at least 5,000 New York Mets fans just converted to Yankees fans just to be “cool.” Today, they all came into school with red Yankee hats and replica Joba [...]