puristbleedspinstripes.com - 10/25/2009
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For some reason, off days during the post season feel longer and more drawn out than those in the actual off-season. Aside from the off-days which provide for cross-country travel, the other off-days seem an absurdity, especially when one considers that baseball is a sport that is predicated on ...
Yankees could go with a 3-man rotation
digitalsportsdaily.com 10/13/2009 — Yankees manager Joe Giriardi said it was a possibility that he would use just three starting pitchers against the Anaheim Angels in the ALCS
"This New Guy We Got"
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/17/2009 — When you can get 45,000+ fans all chanting your name in a LCS in your first year in New York, you're obviously doing something right. CC's something? 8 innings, 4 hits 1 run 1 walk 7 strikeouts. Yeah, I don't know about you, but I'd say that new guy did pretty well for himself. Sabathia and the ...
Sabathia, A-Rod carry Yankees again
scoresreport.com 10/21/2009 —
For the time being, CC Sabathia and Alex Rodriguez have completely silenced their critics.
Sabathia held the Angels to one earned run over eight innings on Tuesday night as the Yankees earned a 10-1 victory to go up three-games-to-one in the ALCS. Rodriguez went three-for-four on the ...
Anything is Possible
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/26/2009 — (photo credit: Nick Laham/Getty Images) I had forgotten what it felt like. Not the winning, but the euphoria. This feeling, that nothing can touch us, that nothing can stop us, that for this moment, the baseball gods have smiled. The Yankees, though, the Yankees were there to make sure I ...
No miracle coming for these Angels
bases.nbcsports.com 10/22/2009 — In truth, the ALCS should be over already. While there's been just the one blowout, the Yankees have outshined the Halos in every aspect of the game through four long nights of baseball. *The Bombers are hitting .278/.375/.481 with eight...
Yankees avenge tough loss with thrashing in LA
soxandpinstripes.com 10/21/2009 — CC Sabathia made sure Joe Girardi wouldn't have to make any tough late-game decisions with the Yankees' bullpen tonight. Pitching on three days rest, the hefty lefty delivered a performance as big as his belt size, lasting eight innings and giving up just one run on five hits during a 10-1 ...
This Week in Yankee History (10/25-10/31)
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 10/25/2009 — This Week in Yankee History October 25th - October 31st October 25th 1869 - Former Yankees 1B Jack “Dirty Jack” Doyle (1905) was born. Jack appeared in 1 game with no hits in 1905 for the Yankees. 1917 - Former Yankees front office executive Lee MacPhail Jr. was born. Lee was ...
I hate off days
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/21/2009 — I hate off days. I hate them in the winter when all is cold and gray, and I hate them in the summer when they mean I can't just plop down on the sofa and watch some baseball while eating my dinner. I hate them, most of all, in October. I know why they're there, so the TV networks can get their ...
Triple the pleasure, triple the fun
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/21/2009 — [I will do a separate post detailing the umpiring or lack thereof in the morning. For the moment, let the Yankees' win in spite of the umpires speak for itself.] For mere humans, starting a Major League baseball game on three days' rest is asking for disaster. For one Carsten Charles Sabathia, ...
Advantage Angels: Lackey now in play —
NY Post: Sports 10/25/2009
Game 6 of the ALCS was postponed by rain (actu ally, it was more like a monsoon) at Yankee Stadium last night, but it was the Angels who came up winners. John Lackey, the Angels' bulldog, their CC Sabathia, said he is good to go.
Lackey wasn't ta...
Bambino lucky he missed A-Rod era —
NY Post: Sports 10/25/2009
Here's a question for you:
What would hap pen, do you think, if the following scenario played itself out? The Yankees beat the Angels in the American League Championship Series, they face the Phillies in the World Series, and the two teams battle...
Did MLB give the Yankees an advantage? —
NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 10/25/2009
The Angels have been hurt by this on-again, off-again series. The Yankees have three talented starting pitchers, but they couldn't have gotten away with a three-man rotation if baseball hadn't cooked an extra day off into this series (last Wednesday ...
