Went looking for some info on the Nationals search for a skipper, and found one of the most flattering, and perhaps accurate pieces about the Yankees core of Jeter, Rivera, Posada and tonight’s starter Andy Pettitte I have seen. Thomas Boswell writes a nice piece about the four, with some great quotes from Reggie Jackson. [...]
Johanna's View
David Murphy wrote that line above. Murphy wrote it for this mornings paper, in a beautiful piece about the Phillies march to return to the World Series.
For those of us in New York long enough to remember the late 1990’s (has it really been 10 years?) we remember what it meant for a team to [...]
Cano: 1 for 4 with a walk, 2 runs scored and an RBI
Swisher: 0 for 2 with a walk, Gardner 1 or 1 with a run scored
Cabrera: 3 for 4 with a walk, and a run scored
Angels:
Morales: 1 for 3 with a run scored
Napoli: 1 for 3
Aybar: 1 for 3
The bottom three may not be [...]
Just to revisit yeterday’s post after the game-
Angels bottom 3:
Izturis - 1 for 5 with w a walk and a run scored
Napoli- 0-3 replaced by Matthews who went 0 for 2 with a walk and a run
Aybar - 1-5 with a run ( and an RBI)
Yankees bottom 3:
Cano: 1 for 5 with a walk and [...]
Tim McCarver said an interesting thing yesterday during an interview with Mike Francessa. Francessa asked him who were the difference makers for this ALCS series, and McCarver said (and I am paraphrasing all of this) that it was the role players.. Chone Figgons, Melky Cabrera etc. That got me thinking. Certainly we all noticed in [...]
