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Yankees-Twins Wrap-up: Putting Out Old Fires to Make »
It goes without saying that the better team won this series. The Yankees hit better with runners in scoring position over the three-game set; their three starters combined for 19 innings, a paltry four runs and fourteen hits allowed with and twenty-one strikeouts. The defense saved three crucial runs in close games—including Teixeira's two [...]
Wacky Schedule Means New York Yankees Can (Must?) »
Three things I just learned about the American League Championship Series have combined to give me chills in the last 45 minutes. 1. The format is 2-3-2, which means we're spending four days playing three games in Anaheim.2. We're 2-4 in Anaheim thus far in 2009, including three gruesome losses in a row in the last weekend before the All-Star [...]
Yankees-Twins ALDS Game Two – The Alex Rodriguez »
He knew it was gone the moment he hit it. It was one more in a long series of moments that have Yankee fans everywhere believing that this is one of those special teams that will go down in history. One more long shot paying off for a team that, for all its talent and gaudy statistics, for all the money it cost to put together, is building its [...]
Yankees-Twins ALDS Preview: Big Mo and Big Moments »
Somewhere around 10 minutes after six tomorrow afternoon, the man already anointed the American League's Most Valuable Player will step into the box against a contender for the American League Cy Young and decide what kind of playoff series we're in for. Here's what we know so far, going into that at-bat: CC Sabathia saw the Twins once this [...]
Singing Along with the New York Yankees’ Playoff »
It happened on Friday night, in the middle of another in a series of epic beatdowns that seem to be taking place in the new Yankee Stadium since the second half began. For the first time since the Yankees clinched a playoff berth in Anaheim on Tuesday, the seventh inning stretch did not feature the grainy, campy 1900s stylings of Kate Smith doing [...]