Yankees' young bullpen steps up in win over Tigers

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NEW YORK - Sean Casey's fly ball to left touched down in Johnny Damon's glove, and it was over. The Yankees' series with the Tigers turned out to be the polar opposite of the one last October. Last time, the Yankees won the opener and got swept in the final three. This time, the Yankees dropped the opener and did the sweeping in the final three, taking yesterday's finale at Yankee Stadium 9-3. ... [link]

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Today in The Journal News
Published 8/20/2007 by Peter Abraham at The LoHud Yankees Blog
... The Yankees took three of four from the Yankees thanks to their bullpen. Brian Heyman has the story. ...

Johan Santana K's 17, Yankees Climb to 4 Back
Published 8/20/2007 at FanIQ Blog
... Yankees 9, Tigers 3 Joba Chamberlain has been rather impressive during his opportunities up in the bigs - no runs, two hits, 11 strikeouts, two walks. ...

Steamroller back on track
Published 8/20/2007 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... ), the Yankees came from behind, scored seven runs in their last four innings, and got three scoreless innings from Edwar Ramirez and Joba Chamberlain. If we felt like second guessing, the case can be made that, if the Yanks knew what they were doing, Edwar should never have been sent down to Scranton. But it's also just as possible that the time there helped him out. Brian Heyman focuses on the young bullpen's impact yesterday. Anyway, there are more important things to think about: three out of four from the Tigers (though it's too bad this didn't happen last October), and now the Yanks are back to where they were before in the wild card race, two back of the M's in the loss column and a half-game out, while they are ...

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