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First Down: Girardi's selfless act
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Yankees' manager far from an average Joe The best test of a person's character is what he does when no one is watching. Joe Girardi passed with a perfect score in the early hours Thursday morning. After consistently and subtly pulling the right strings during the World Series...
Strained muscle sidelines Strasburg
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Top Washington Nationals pitching prospect Stephen Strasburg was scratched from his scheduled start in Saturday's Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game because of a neck strain. Strasburg, the top pick in June's draft, was slated to start the exhibition, which pits the best...
Heller: McGwire's mum return
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The sadly misguided St. Louis Cardinals have hired Mark McGwire as a hitting coach for 2010. The question is, why in the name of Stan the Man do they want him? No matter how good he might be in the role - and I suspect not very - let's call it a Cardinal sin. Look at the record...
Big spending, big return for Yankees
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NEW YORK | As the New York Yankees mobbed one another on the Yankee Stadium mound Wednesday night, exercising their World Series rite of passage to act like the world's richest 12-year-olds, it was easy to mistake the dogpile for a group of baseball players celebrating the conclusion...
Loverro: Business as usual for baseball's bully
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Years ago, the saying about Yankees fans was that rooting for the New York Yankees was like rooting for U.S. Steel. Let's modernize it a bit: Rooting for the 2009 World Series champion New York Yankees is like rooting for AIG. The Yankees are the perfect symbol for the times...
Matsui's monster day lifts Yankees to title
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The idea of Hideki Matsui always had been bigger than the ballplayer himself. How could it not be? By the time he arrived in New York in 2003, he already had been in the American conscience since he was a 20-year-old phenom playing in the 1994 Japan Series while baseball fans in...
Yankees win 27th World Series title
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NEW YORK | The idea of Hideki Matsui always had been bigger than the ballplayer himself. How could it not be? Nicknamed Godzilla, he arrived from Japan in 2003 as the expensive overseas bauble brought in by a New York team that always had to have the latest and greatest. Yet Matsui...
Riggleman could stay with Nationals
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The Washington Nationals are expected to name their manager in the next week, and after Don Mattingly removed himself from consideration, it appears Jim Riggleman has an inside track toward retaining the job he held on an interim basis during the second half of the season. General...
Pedro tries to halt Yankees' party
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NEW YORK | The 105th World Series is back at Yankee Stadium, pushed north for a sixth game and possibly past the point that the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies can cover up their flaws. The Yankees - their series lead cut to 3-2 after an 8-6 loss to the Phillies on Monday...
Bush throws out pitch in Japan
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TOKYO | Former President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the Japan Series between the Yomiuri Giants and Nippon Ham Fighters. Bush, wearing a Yomiuri warmup jacket, took the mound Tuesday at Tokyo Dome and threw a pitch to Giants catcher Shinnosuke...
Utley, Phillies not finished yet
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PHILADELPHIA | The Philadelphia Phillies may yet lose the 105th World Series. Even with an 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees on Monday night in Game 5, the defending champs still face a daunting task, needing to win two more in the Bronx with their ace essentially unavailable...
Yankees' meetings a mound of annoyance for fans
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PHILADELPHIA | New York Yankees pitchers have seemingly spent more time during the World Series talking to teammates and coaches on the mound than actually throwing to hitters. And it drove the Philadelphia Phillies and their fans batty during games at Citizens Bank Park. Battery...
A-Rod puts Yankees one win from title
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PHILADELPHIA -- Forget about the 49 other guys in uniform. This is Alex Rodriguez's World Series, and everyone else is just a bystander in the long-awaited arrival of baseball's greatest player on its grandest stage. The New York Yankees third baseman has been the center...
Thom Loverro: It's better to bottom out
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You would be hard-pressed to find two more sorrowful franchises in sports in the same city than the Washington Redskins and the Washington Nationals. One franchise - the Redskins - has spent a fortune to be mediocre in the best times, woeful in the worst times, like now. That puts...
Fox moves its camera from fence
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PHILADELPHIA | In this, the postseason of disputed calls and replay reviews, television is now trying to help make life easier on umpires at the World Series. One night after one of its cameras behind the right-field fence was struck by Alex Rodriguez's deep drive, Fox decided...
Yankees lead World Series 2-1
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PHILADELPHIA -- The explosion was bound to happen at some point before the 105th World Series concluded. The New York Yankees simply have too much firepower spread across their lineup to be stymied over the course of an entire series. And what better place to rediscover it than in...
The Way It Was: World Series matchup in 1950 was hardly classic
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The first time the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies met in what used to be called the Fall Classic, it was almost literally a nothing World Series. The Yankees won four straight in that distant autumn of 1950 for the second of five straight Series championships under Casey...
Sabathia slated to start Game 4 for Yankees
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PHILADELPHIA | Joe Girardi has no hesitation bringing back CC Sabathia on short rest in the World Series. Now the New York Yankees manager needs to decide whether to bring A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte back in similar fashion and go the entire series with a three-man rotation. Girardi...
Phillies' ace in the hole
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PHILADELPHIA | He was the prince of Philadelphia, more responsible for securing this town's first major professional sports championship in 25 years than anyone else on the Phillies' 2008 playoff roster. Yet there may not be a bigger unknown entity on the Phillies' roster...
First Down: Finally, a World Series to savor
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Finally, a World Series to savor The defending champs, and the most decorated team in sports history. The National League's most dangerous lineup vs. the Bronx Bombers. As the first two games showed, baseball is well on its way to the most delicious title matchup since... Well...
The next best thing is still a ratings hit
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Here we are, the last day in October, and Saturday night will be only Game 3 of the World Series. Consider this, then, as you prepare to watch the game coming from Philadelphia - this game could have been in Denver. Yes, Denver, with about 1 1/2 feet of snow, the worst October storm...
Sabathia likely starter for Game 4
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PHILADELPHIA | Charlie Manuel won't bring back his ace on short rest. Joe Girardi hasn't decided whether he'll follow suit, but all signs point to CC Sabathia taking the ball for Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday. The New York Yankees manager doesn't plan to announce...
Burnett gets Yankees even in World Series
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NEW YORK | The New York Yankees arrived Thursday night for Game 2 of the World Series perilously close to a must-win situation. And with the variables that had to line up for them to even their series with the Philadelphia Phillies at a game apiece, it was worth asking whether they...
Yankees' Girardi benches slumping Swisher for Game 2
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NEW YORK | The New York Yankees entered Thursday down 1-0 in the World Series, which wouldn't be grounds for panic except for the fact that they needed to win Game 2 at home to prevent needing two wins in Philadelphia, where the Phillies have lost just once in the postseason...
First Down: Top make-believe facts about Cliff Lee
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THE BEST OF THE WEEKEND IN SPORTS World Series The Fall Classic heads back to Philadelphia, where the Phillies could win their second consecutive title. The threat of rain for Games 3 and 4 could be the biggest foe this weekend, however. Vikings at Packers Now it's Fox's...
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