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ALCS Game 4: Yankees 10, Angels 1

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

He has homered in three straight postseason games. He has now tied the record for consecutive postseason games with an RBI at eight. Sharing that record currently with Ryan Howard and Lou Gehrig. He has 11 RBIs thus far this postseason and a combined ALDS/ALCS average of .407. He is having the time of his […]

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ALCS Game 2 Recap: Lucky Thirteen

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Well, I jinxed myself when in my recap of Game 1 of the ALCS I mentioned that a low-scoring pitchers’ duel is so easy to summarize. So of course Game 2 had to be a crazy extra-innings classic full of missed opportunities and twists of fate. It began with A. J. Burnett and lefty Joe […]

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Bottom of the Ninth

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

You could start a club this winter for elite closers whose blown saves sent their teams to early ends. Jonathan Papelbon, Huston Street, and Joe Nathan can start a therapy group. Or maybe they just need one more to make a golf foursome. What people are forgetting is that Mariano Rivera could join that group. […]

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ALDS Game 3: Yankees @ Twins Sweep

Sunday, October 11, 2009

It’s over in Minnesota. The grounds crew is digging up home plate at the Metrodome to carry it over to Target Field, which will be the Twins’ new home come spring. But tonight it was Yankee cleats that crossed it most often. In the end the only real surprise in the Yankees/Twins division series was […]

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ALDS Game 2: Twins at Yankees

Saturday, October 10, 2009

There were so many twists and turns in this game that the only reasonable way for me to recap it is to tell it chronologically. Let us begin with the weather, which was balmy and humid for October. With possible rain showers forecast, the fans had jackets but most were carrying them. The intense wind […]

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2009 ALDS Game One: Twins at Yankees

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Everything went according to the Yankees’ script tonight at The Stadium. Derek Jeter added to his postseason resume, CC Sabathia was dominant, the Twins were a plucky but not overly troublesome opponent, the bullpen was a well-oiled machine, and Alex Rodriguez got off the schneid. I drove to New York today from Boston to make […]

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October 12 2005: Common Enemies

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Well, baseball season is over. Oh, I know the Cardinals and the White Sox and people like that are still playing. But the Red Sox are out of it, and the Yankees are out of it, and call me a chauvinist, but this means that baseball has gone from a gripping must-see drama to a […]

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September 15 2005: Revival Meeting

Thursday, September 15, 2005

The pinstripe faithful rose up at Tropicana Field on Thursday night at a revival meeting led by newly ordained minister Robinson Cano. The bigtop known as Tropicana Field was thoroughly taken over by the hordes in blue and white who came to have their faith renewed. The first to testify to the miracle of rebirth […]

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Traveling the Bambino Road: Day One

Thursday, March 6, 2003

Day One: March 6, 2003 When I arrived at Boston’s Logan airport this morning, the roads were crackling with fresh ice and the forecast was for snow. When I stepped onto the tarmac three hours later at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the air was moist with balmy rain. Folks here tell me it’s unusually cold for […]

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April 27 2001: Comings & Goings

Friday, April 27, 2001

I parked my car at Yankee Stadium recently, when I wasn’t going to a game. Why? Well, where else can you park your car in New York for eight hours for only eight dollars? I had driven down to the city from Boston to do a reading for the New York Review of Science Fiction […]

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