World Series Tied One Game Each!
The Phillies started off strong and dominant in game one with Cliff Lee pitching the game of his life. Shutting down the Yankees with no earned runs and walking off the field and out of Yankee Stadium with a 6 to 1 win and taking game one as if it were candy from a baby! Lee’s performance was outstanding and even Tim McCarver seemed surprised at not only how well Lee pitched but how relaxed he was on the field. Lee made plays you’d expect in the World Series! Like a nonchalant catch of a pop up to the mound and then a behind the back group of a hot grounder back through the box. If the Phillies end up winning the series it will be because Lee pitched so well in game one it gave the Phillies confidence going in to game two, and guaranteed them at least a split when they come home this weekend.
Game two with AJ Burnett and the ever talkative Pedro Martinez looked to be a repeat of game one through much of the early innings. Pedro was quite dominant and he held a one run lead going into the bottom of the 4th inning until mark Teixeira homered off a change up on the outside of the plate! And it remained tied until Hideko Matsui homered in the bottom of the 6th of Pedro and that was all that Burnett needed. The Yankees took a two run lead going into the 8th and 9th innings with Mariano Rivera pitching a two inning save. His 8th inning appeared less strong when he allowed two runners to reach with only one out, but a strong throw by Jeter got the double-play and got the Yankees out of the 8th inning!
I think it was more of a relief than joy for me when they won last night and even the series at one win apiece! Going back to Philadelphia is not the hard part in my mind for the Yankees, I think keeping the Phillies offense out of the game-as they were by Burnett in game#2-will be the difficult part for their starters and the bull-pen. I expect to see the Yankees come back to the Bronx Wednesday for game #6 and hopefully win the series at home!
Phillies-Yankees Game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Phillies/Yankees Game#2
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_29_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Friday, October 30, 2009
Showing posts with label NY Yankees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NY Yankees. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
2009 World Series Game #1
Yankees/Phillies-World Series Game#1!
Well it’s been six long years for Yankees fans to see their beloved Bronx-Bombers back in the Fall Classic! And it’s been all of a year for the Philadelphia crowd to enjoy the same. It’s going to be a train/I-95 series over the next week and I can imagine that there will be plenty of New Yorkers in Philly over the weekend when the Yankees play there on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps Monday night too!
Tonight at around 8pm I’ll be at home watching game #1 in this series and waiting to see who has more offense and who has better pitching. I think most of us who have followed the American League and seen the playoffs this fall will expect C.C Sabathia to pitch well and to leave it all on the field. Hopefully we’ll have a great series and see why both these teams belong in the fall classic!
2009 Playoff Schedule
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp?y=09
2009 World Series game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Well it’s been six long years for Yankees fans to see their beloved Bronx-Bombers back in the Fall Classic! And it’s been all of a year for the Philadelphia crowd to enjoy the same. It’s going to be a train/I-95 series over the next week and I can imagine that there will be plenty of New Yorkers in Philly over the weekend when the Yankees play there on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps Monday night too!
Tonight at around 8pm I’ll be at home watching game #1 in this series and waiting to see who has more offense and who has better pitching. I think most of us who have followed the American League and seen the playoffs this fall will expect C.C Sabathia to pitch well and to leave it all on the field. Hopefully we’ll have a great series and see why both these teams belong in the fall classic!
2009 Playoff Schedule
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp?y=09
2009 World Series game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Yankees/Angels Working for Series Bid
Yankees-Angels in the 2009 ALCS!
October 2009 has had some interesting baseball for us to watch and listen too. I saw the Detroit Tigers blow a 7 game lead with a week to go and then loose the division to the Twins in a one game playoff. The Twins then lost the division series to the Yankees in straight games-no real surprise there. Now the Yankees are playing some very good baseball against the Angels and hoping to return to the World Series for the first time in six years.
The last time the Yankees were in the series Joe Torre was their manager. I was sick on dialysis and lived in a basement apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I also watched the Yankees loose in 6 games to the Florida Marlins as Jorge Posada bounced out to 2nd and ended the game. It was a surprise though it shouldn’t have been one for me. I saw them loose in 7 games to Arizona in 2001 and couldn’t believe that Mariano Rivera was capable of losing a game.
Now we have game five to be played tomorrow night in Anaheim, California at 8pm [EST] and there will be millions watching and waiting to see if the Yankees can pull off one more game and go back to the fall classic.
However, I don’t think I’d be living up to my standards if I left this entry without mentioning the very terrible officiating/umping we have seen during these playoffs. Last night’s fiasco was the worst and is being compared to the poor umpping by Leslie Nielsen in the movie Naked Gun! How can someone miss so many obvious calls in such a short amount of time? I realize these guys are human and will make mistakes, but these were obvious ones-not close calls that you needed a digital computer to move frame by frame to view and determine if the call was right. It was so wrong people in the stands could see it!
I hope that the umping gets better and that the Yankees win Thursday night. I’d rather have the Yankees in the series because they earned their way there and won the game than because the umps made a huge mistake and gave the game away.
espn.com-baseball playoffs and the poor calls
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=4581598
world series 2003
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2003/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
October 2009 has had some interesting baseball for us to watch and listen too. I saw the Detroit Tigers blow a 7 game lead with a week to go and then loose the division to the Twins in a one game playoff. The Twins then lost the division series to the Yankees in straight games-no real surprise there. Now the Yankees are playing some very good baseball against the Angels and hoping to return to the World Series for the first time in six years.
The last time the Yankees were in the series Joe Torre was their manager. I was sick on dialysis and lived in a basement apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I also watched the Yankees loose in 6 games to the Florida Marlins as Jorge Posada bounced out to 2nd and ended the game. It was a surprise though it shouldn’t have been one for me. I saw them loose in 7 games to Arizona in 2001 and couldn’t believe that Mariano Rivera was capable of losing a game.
Now we have game five to be played tomorrow night in Anaheim, California at 8pm [EST] and there will be millions watching and waiting to see if the Yankees can pull off one more game and go back to the fall classic.
However, I don’t think I’d be living up to my standards if I left this entry without mentioning the very terrible officiating/umping we have seen during these playoffs. Last night’s fiasco was the worst and is being compared to the poor umpping by Leslie Nielsen in the movie Naked Gun! How can someone miss so many obvious calls in such a short amount of time? I realize these guys are human and will make mistakes, but these were obvious ones-not close calls that you needed a digital computer to move frame by frame to view and determine if the call was right. It was so wrong people in the stands could see it!
I hope that the umping gets better and that the Yankees win Thursday night. I’d rather have the Yankees in the series because they earned their way there and won the game than because the umps made a huge mistake and gave the game away.
espn.com-baseball playoffs and the poor calls
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=4581598
world series 2003
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2003/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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