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Sunday, October 25th 2009, 4:00 AM
The starting pitchers don't change for the Yankees and Angels because it rained Saturday, the stakes don't change. The Yankees try to win their 40th pennant Sunday night instead of Saturday night, bring the World Series back to New York for the first time in six years. The Angels try to win themselves another day of a baseball season.
Andy Pettitte still gets the ball from Joe Girardi, and if Pettitte does the kind of job he has done for a very long time in New York, going all the way back to October of 1996, then the Yankees don't have to...
Based simply on numbers, you can make the case the Yankees look desperate here, calling up Andy Pettitte to start Sunday in the Bronx before he’s truly ready. But that’s a silly way of interpreting a decision they had to... more »
If a man can make walking with crutches look effortless, well, who else but Mariano Rivera? Here he was, practically gliding across the clubhouse on his new crutches, when he noticed everyone studying his every move. “I didn't... more »
You want to take something meaningful away from Andy Pettitte’s first time back on a major-league mound in a year and a half? Then you go right ahead. Go ahead and break down Pettitte’s 6⅓-inning, 94-pitch... more »
Alex Rodriguez has played in every game this season. Sometime this summer, maybe on an extra-humid afternoon or during the 20-games-in-20-days stretch the New York Yankees face in August, manager Joe Girardi will sit him.... more »
Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher likes to call Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon “the mad scientist,” and with good reason. When the two teams met, in St. Petersburg, Fla., on the opening weekend of the regular ... more »
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