mlbbabble.wordpress.com - 10/26/2009
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The author analyzes Joe Girardi's decision to use Mariano Rivera for six outs.
Mo at home in postseason
lohud.com 28 days ago — PHILADELPHIA - In the late innings of Thursday's Game 2 of the World Series, Yankees manager Joe Girardi had two things in his favor: Mariano Rivera and an off-day Friday. Rivera handled the ninth inning as usual, but he also pitched a scoreless ...
Rivera shows he's still the best
lohud.com 10/26/2009 — NEW YORK - He has been there before, so many times, and yet it still felt sweet. Still felt special and beautiful and unique. Still felt like magic. Mariano Rivera has been at the heart of four World Series celebrations and yet, this one - this night ...
Who Provides the Bridge to Mariano?
noyoureatowel.net 10/27/2009 — As we get ready for the World Series to start, there are still a few questions that the Yankees still have to answer. One of the biggest is who will be Mariano Rivera's set-up man (or men) when Joe Girardi goes to the bullpen? Let's take a look at the candidates (from the bottom up):
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A Taste of Their Own as Angels Walk Off on Yanks
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/20/2009 — Generalizations never achieve much, but in this occasion, one generalization can explain a lot. The Yankees lost game three of the 2009 ALCS because Joe Girardi managed a road game as if he were still home. You can call it over-managing if you'd like--and indeed, it probably was--but managing ...
Where* art thou Robertson?
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/23/2009 — In his book Birth of a Dynasty , Joel Sherman opens with the 1995 postseason. He makes mention that Buck Showalter had a young Mariano Rivera in the bullpen--ostensibly along for the ride--but did not use him in that fatal game five when it would have mattered most. I won't bore you with the ...
Rivera ready to do whatever it takes
nydailynews.com 10/19/2009 — Mariano Rivera hadn’t pitched more than two innings in a postseason game since Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, when he tossed three brilliant innings to help lead the Yankees past the Red Sox in the Aaron Boone Game.
Rivera got seven outs on ...
Not Even Ribcage Injury Stopped Rivera
bats.blogs.nytimes.com 21 days ago — Mariano Rivera pitched with a ribcage injury during the postseason. If Rivera had faltered in Game 6 of the World Series, would he have been fit enough to pitch in a Game 7 against the Phillies?
Leverage, baby, Leverage
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/26/2009 — When Mariano Rivera began to warm in the seventh inning last night, there were a variety of reactions. Some liked the move, some did not, and I admit that, at first, I was a little worried--what if something happened, Rivera pitched two innings, the Yankees lost the game and then Rivera wasn't ...
On Bullpens and Nostalgia
puristbleedspinstripes.com 10/12/2009 — Although the Yankees have played just three games in the postseason thus far, a clear pattern seems to be emerging in Joe Girardi's managerial style. Girardi, as many Yankee fans will remember, was a member of the 1996 Yankee team and had, perhaps, one of the biggest hits in the series--a ...
Watching Rivera
baseballmusings.com 29 days ago — The Phillies think the more they see of Mariano Rivera , the better they will hit him.
“We can hit Rivera,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel promised not long after the Yankees laid a 3-1 bruise on his team to even this World Series at ...
Madden: Girardi must sort out pen puzzle —
NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 10/26/2009
After the events of ALCS Games 3 and 5, in which the Angels twice rallied to win, Joe Girardi really didn't want to get into a battle of the bullpens Sunday night. The struggles of Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes had made for a suddenly very rickety ...
Yanks beat Angels in 6 to advance to World Series —
Examiner Sports 10/26/2009
They dashed from the dugout and in from the outfield, swarming Alex Rodriguez in a sea of pinstripes only steps from his spot at third base. "I couldn't be more excited," he said. "I feel like a 10-year-old kid." Making it to the World Series for the ...
Girardi feeling bubbly buzz —
NY Post: Sports 10/26/2009
Joe Girardi took an ocean of heat for moves that didn't work out during the ALCS. Now that he is going to the World Series for the first time as a manager, he's feeling the same buzz he did as a player.
"I have the same feeling of excitement," Gir...
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