Yankees and Rays Brawl After Pre-Season Game
sports.espn.go.com 3/12/2008 — After a dirty, spikes-first slide by Shelley Duncan (into Akinori Iwamura), the Yankees and Rays threw down in an unprecedented pre-season brawl. What is wrong with people?
Yankees, Rays brawl in Florida -
newsday.com 3/12/2008 — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The bad blood between the Yankees and Rays boiled over Wednesday afternoon with a benches-clearing brawl. The fight started when the Yankees' Shelley Duncan lined a single over Rays third baseman Evan Longoria's head. Instead of ...
Spring Training Fights Are Awesome!
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 3/12/2008 — I'm trying to find video for it now but it looks like New York might be a bit upset about the Rays playing hard in Spring Training..... One day after Yankees manager Joe Girardi insisted his club would not retaliate for a violent home-plate collision in Saturday's game against the Rays, both clubs spilled onto the field at Progress Energy Park in a bench-clearing incident Wednesday. In the ...
Rays: Duncan play ‘flat-out dirty’
tboblogs.com 3/12/2008 — Most of the Rays’ starters are out of the game now and their opinions on Shelley Duncan’s bench-clearing slide into Aki Iwamura in the second inning were unanimous. “Dirty play,” said B.J. Upton. “Just a flat-out dirty play. Period.” Jonny Gomes ...
Pettitte pushed back
riveraveblues.com 3/12/2008 — Via Mike Rose filling in for Kat O’Brien:
Andy Pettitte has been scratched from his start Wednesday with minor muscle irritation in his left forearm on the outside of the elbow.
Manager Joe Girardi heavily emphasized that the ailment is ...
Rays and Yankees Go at it Again!
sports.aol.com 3/12/2008 — The Yankees and Rays faced off for the first time since Saturday's ill-fated game , which left a Yank and a Ray with injuries, and things were wild again. Despite Girardi saying he didn't want his players to retaliate, Shelley Duncan warned us all ...
The day the Rays finally became a real MLB franchise
sports.yahoo.com 3/12/2008 — Since entering the league in 1998, the Tampa Bay Rays have played 1,617 regular season games, called four different men "manager" and attracted some large crowds to Tropicana Field (at least when the Red Sox and Yankees were in town.) ...
Crystal lives out pinstripe dreams —
Major League Baseball News 3/12/2008
An idea spawned on the beaches of Costa Rica a few months ago between Billy Crystal and Derek Jeter turned comedic in the batting cages of Field Two at Legends Field on Wednesday. Crystal was signed to a one-day Minor League contract with the Yankees, ...
