Rain is pouring down and will delay the start of game three in Philadelphia. Nick Swisher is back in the lineup playing right field. Joe Girardi has confirmed that CC Sabathia will be the game four starter tomorrow night. Sabathia will be pitching on three days rest for the second time this postseason.
Who do the Yankees trust coming out of the bullpen? The first and most obvious answer; Mariano Rivera. After Mariano the level of trust drops substantially. Here are the various confidence levels the Yankees have in their bullpen. Most Confidence: Mariano Rivera Mr. Reliable has a 0.71 ERA this postseason. Girardi has called on Mo [...]
By now you can recite the statistics. A-Rod is 0-8 with six strikeouts in the first two games of the World Series. A-Rod may be the person that everyone focuses on but other players need to start hitting too. Teixeira is 1-7 with a solo home run and three strikeouts. Johnny Damon is 1-8 and [...]
The Yankees and Phillies have boarded the Amtrak to Philadelphia both having one won game each in the Bronx. Both managers have some decisions to make for the upcoming games in the NL stadium. With no DH, Girardi loses Matsui’s bat in the lineup. Matsui hasn’t played the field at all this season and his [...]
After two games of the World Series, this has the feeling it could go to the very last out of game seven. The starting pitchers have done an incredible job in the first two games. AJ Burnett turned in what may be the best pitching performance of his Yankee career or maybe even his entire [...]
A lot of people were worried after the Yankees dropped game one and were baffled by Cliff Lee. The media and sports writers were hard on the Yankees after the game one loss. They wrote articles with headlines like “Yankees get sucker-punched into a crisis” (By Yahoo’s Tim Brown). A lot of people looked at [...]
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