Yankees Didn’t Need Much Bubbly After Ousting Bumbling Twins
October 10, 2010
by Ed Price
Filed under: Twins, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series
NEW YORK — Somehow, it felt like the Yankees shouldn’t have even popped the champagne late Saturday night.
Sure, they won their American League Division Series to advance to the Championship Series. But Yankees-Twins has replaced “Everybody Loves Raymond” as the most predictable show on TBS.
The Yankees won 6-1 Saturday to finish off the sweep, and once Robinson Cano led off the bottom of the second inning with a triple, the outcome never felt in doubt — even when Kerry Wood vainly tried to make it competitive in the eighth.
By the end of the fourth inning, it was 5-0, and it felt like 50-0. The Twins went down in 10 pitches or fewer in four of their seven innings against Phil Hughes and lost their ninth straight postseason game against the Yankees.
“We wanted to finish this today, because you don’t want to give the other team any hope,” Derek Jeter said.
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Mark Teixeira Latest Yankee to Become Pain in Twins’ Side
October 7, 2010
by John Hickey
Filed under: Twins, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series
MINNEAPOLIS — There is a huge difference between someone or something being broken and being fragile.
Based on what went down Wednesday night in Target Field, we can reason that it’s better to be broken than to be fragile.
Mark Teixeira is broken, or at least broken down. He’s playing with a slow-to-heal broken right little toe suffered on Aug. 31. A few days later he bruised his right thumb, which required a cortisone shot just two weeks ago — and may need another soon.
The Minnesota Twins are fragile, all the more so because of what Teixeira did to them Wednesday night in the Yankees‘ 6-4 win in Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
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A.J. Burnett Left Out of Yankees’ Division Series Rotation
October 6, 2010
by Tom Fornelli
Filed under: Twins, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series
Last week Yankees starter A.J. Burnett said he was expecting to be a part of the team’s starting rotation in the ALDS.
Considering the way Burnett has performed on the mound for the Yankees lately, calling Burnett delusional wouldn’t exactly be a stretch.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Tuesday that Burnett would be available out of the bullpen during the Division Series.
It seems that Girardi is more comfortable going with CC Sabathia on short rest in a potential Game 4 than rolling the dice with Burnett, and it’s hard to blame him for it. The plan is to have Sabathia and Andy Pettitte start the first two games in Minnesota, then to hand the ball to Phil Hughes in Game 3 with Sabathia returning on three days’ rest for Game 4. Pettitte would then pitch a possible fifth game on full rest.
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Selling Short: Will Pettitte Be Better Than Burnett on Three Days’ Rest?
September 2, 2010
by Ed Price
Filed under: Yankees, MLB Playoffs, World Series
PHILADELPHIA — Ready and willing is one thing.
Able is another.
“Oh yeah,” Andy Pettitte said with a definitive nod when FanHouse asked if he’d be able to pitch Game 6 of the World Series on short rest. “Whenever they tell me to pitch.”
But how will it go?
CC Sabathia was fine on three days’ rest in Game 4. A.J. Burnett — less durable than Sabathia but younger than Pettitte — was awful in Game 5.
Game 5: Phillies 8, Yankees 6 | Box Score | Series Home
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Yankees Capture 27th World Series Title
September 2, 2010
Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, World Series
NEW YORK (AP) — Paint the town in pinstripes! Nearly a decade after their dynasty ended on a blooper in the desert, the New York Yankees are baseball’s best again.
Hideki Matsui tied a World Series record with six RBIs, Andy Pettitte won on short rest and New York beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 on Wednesday night, finally seizing that elusive 27th title – the most in all of sports.
It was the team’s first since winning three straight from 1998-2000.
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