By Jeremy Tiermini Baseball fans are always keeping track of current news. Usually, player updates are what fans care about. However, one story has hit home for me. Recent news reports indicate that the head athletic trainer for the New York Yankees, Gene Monahan, will miss spring training and, perhaps, part of the season recovering [...]
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By Jeremy Tiermini Reports out of MLB’s Winter Meetings indicate that a 3-team trade was just completed between the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and Arizona Diamondbacks. Arizona would acquire starting pitchers Edwin Jackson (from the Tigers) and Ian Kennedy (from the Yankees), the Yankees would get outfielder Curtis Granderson,
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By Elizabeth Finn To call them Cinderella would be an insult to the game. Nowhere in the corpulent largess and Goliath stature is there room for heartwarming tales of triumph beyond all odds–sandlot boys with scuffed knees playing a big man’s game. They are the biggest, the shiniest, the most impervious. They are caviar and [...]
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By Thom Henninger When the New York Yankees secured their 27th World Series title with a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, it was eight years to the day that Luis Gonzalez delivered a broken-bat single off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2001 Fall Classic. That hit [...]
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By Thom Henninger A year ago, the Philadelphia Phillies returned home after splitting the first two games of the World Series with the Tampa Bay Rays. The Phillies scratched for a run in the bottom of the ninth to claim a one-run victory in Game 3, then won two more at home to win a [...]
By Thom Henninger Backed by solid outings from Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez, the Philadelphia Phillies have shown they aren’t going to roll over for the New York Yankees, who are widely perceived as the favorite in the 2009 World Series. Now the Phillies need a strong performance from the rotation member who has been [...]
By Thom Henninger The Phillies are in the midst of six days off before opening the 2009 World Series in the Bronx on Wednesday. Going into the 2007 World Series, the Colorado Rockies were on a 21-1 surge before sitting for eight days and were swept by the Boston Red Sox. Time off worked against [...]
By Thom Henninger After blowing a 4-0 lead late in Game 5 of the ALCS, the Los Angeles Angels waged an impressive comeback to force a Game 6 back in the Bronx. The task of staying alive gets harder, though, for Los Angeles.
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By Thom Henninger Yankees manager Joe Girardi had pulled all the right strings during his team’s 5-0 start in the postseason, but he’ll be second-guessed about a few moves he made Monday in the Angels’ 5-4 victory in Game 3.
By Thom Henninger What’s happened to the Los Angeles Angels? They have been one of the better defensive teams in the majors this season, and a Mike Scioscia club is usually a heady bunch not prone to mental mistakes.
