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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES
Tampa, FL. ~ This time last year Alex Rodriguez was surrounded by Yankees brass as well as teammates as he read from a prepared statement addressing his use of PED’s. As the Yankee third baseman walked into George M. Steinbrenner Field earlier this week to begin Spring Training he was all smiles because he is now a World Champion. Alex is 34 years old going into the 2010 season and about $216 Million plus a few historic incentives left on his contract. Rodriguez is about to embark upon a most critical segment of his career. These next few seasons are the ones that will define him in history, either as a very good player who did a few special things, or as one of the most sensational, remarkable talents to play the game. Rodriguez will be a Yankee for eight more seasons. A lot can happen between now and 2017.Rodriguez has, in a sense, been reborn. In 2009, he sat beneath the tent at George M. Steinbrenner Field, as broken as a superstar baseball player can be. In 2010, Rodriguez sat beneath the same tent and beamed. ”It’s definitely a much different day,” Rodriguez said. “That’s clear to me. Last year, obviously, was a very embarrassing day, and something that I wouldn’t want to go back and do. But looking back, I certainly thought it was a very important day.” Now, Rodriguez can concentrate on bolstering his .305 career average, adding to his 583 lifetime home runs, working back into top defensive form. He has a chance to accumulate numbers never before seen in the game of baseball.
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AS WE SAY GOODBYE TO 2009 WE REFLECT ON THE PAST YEAR’S EVENTS
Saying goodbye to 2009 means saying goodbye to a decade. A decade in which the New York Yankees won 5 World Series Championships with the latest being in 2009 to end the decade. A lot has happened in the year 2009 including the biggest moment being World Championship number 27, let’s take a look at the 10 biggest moments of the 2009 season as we get ready to ring in the new year 2010.
1) Opening Day at the New Yankee Stadium
2) Luis Castillo dropped the ball during the first Subway Series at the New Yankee Stadium to give the Yankees the win.
3) The “Pie Man” A.J. Burnett debuts as he delivers his first Walk Off pie to Johnny Damon on May 17, 2009 after Damon hit a 10th inning HR to beat the Minnesota Twins.
4) Alex Rodriguez homers in the bottom of the 15th inning to beat the Boston Red Sox to complete a 4 game sweep after the Red Sox had gone 8-0 against the Yankees.
5) On 9/11 Derek Jeter passed the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig as the All Time Yankees hits leader
6) On Alex Rodriguez’s first swing of the 2009 season in Baltimore he connects and hits a HR after returning from hip surgery that caused him to miss the first month of the season.
7) 2008 ended a streak of consecutive years of the Yankees making the playoffs but 2009 started that streak fresh as they won the AL East for the first time since 2006.
8) A wall scraper HR by Mark Teixeira in the bottom of the 11th in Game 2 of the ALDS off Twins’ closer Joe Nathan gives the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the series which ended up in a 3-0 sweep that took place in the Metrodome. The Yankee win ended the Twins’ season and made it the final baseball game to ever be played in the dome.
9) At 1:07 am in Game 2 of the ALCS Maicer Izturis misplayed a ball that plated Jerry Hairston Jr. in the bottom of the 13th inning to give the Yankees yet another walk off victory and a 2-0 ALCS lead heading west to California.
10) WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS
**The top 10 moments of 2009 were in no particular order**
What were your top 10 moments of 2009? Comment Below.
Happy New Year!
ALBER PUJOLS WINS NL MVP UNANIMOUSLY
St. Louis Cardinals 1B Albert Pujols has won the 2009 National League Most Valuable Player Award. It is Albert’s third NL MVP award of his career. Pujols received 32 first place votes, good for 448 ballot points. Florida Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez garnered 15 second place votes and 233 points. Philadelphia Phillies 1B Ryan Howard was a close third with 217 points. They were followed by Milwaukee Brewers 1B Prince Fielder and Colorado Rockies SS Troy Tulowitzki. Pujols has won the award two seasons in a row and he is only the tenth player all time to win the award three times. Every player that has won three MVP’s and been elected to the HOF have made it in. New York Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez and former San Francsico Giants OF Barry Bonds have not yet been elected. That wraps up the Yakkin’ About The Yankees coverage of the 2009 season, now I turn my focus to the off season including all trades, rumors and free agent signings.
YANKEES CRUISE DOWN CANYON OF HEROES
It’s been nine long years but the New York Yankees paraded down the Canyon of Heroes once again as they and over a million Yankee fans celebrated their 27th World Series victory. The Yankees were presented keys to the city by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall after making their way down the Canyon. This is a sight that Yankee fans will be seeing a lot more of because it won’t be nine years before we win our next one.
CLUTCH 9TH INNING HITTING PUTS YANKEES ONE WIN AWAY FROM CHAMPIONSHIP
Going into the top of the ninth inning it was tied at 4 a piece and Brad Lidge was on the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies. Phillies fans figured that Lidge would have a scoreless inning and make something happen in the bottom of the ninth to even up the series once again. It was close to a scoreless inning for Lidge who had recorded two outs in the inning but then his worst nightmare came up to the plate. Johnny Damon worked the count full and made Lidge throw a lot of pitches and Damon eventually won the battle by hitting a single to left that bounced in front of Raul Ibanez. With Mark Teixeira now at the plate the Phillies put the shift on but this left them vulnerable to the running threat that the Yankees posed. Johnny Damon stole second base on the first pitch but with nobody covering third base Damon scooted around 3B Pedro Feliz and proceeded to third base uncontested. Teixeira was eventually walked putting runners on the corner for Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod hit a screaming line drive double over the head of Raul Ibanez to plate two runs and put the Yankees up 7 – 4. Going into the bottom of the ninth the Phillies were now down by 3 instead of being tied and coming out of the visitor’s bullpen was Mariano Rivera and as we all know he has been lights out this postseason and he was so once again as he shut the Phillies down 1,2,3 to put the Yankees up 3 games to 1 and one win away from World Series Championship number 27.
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YANKEES GET TO HAMELS TO TAKE 2 – 1 LEAD IN SERIES
“Let’s give them something to talk about,How about love?” The Yankees gave Phillies fans something to talk about in the city of Brotherly Love last night as the long ball and two hitters breaking out of their slumps propelled them to a 8-5 victory over the Phillies giving them a 2 games to 1 lead in the best of 7 World Series. As John Sterling put it, “The Yankees are half way to winning the World Series.” Half way is exactly right because the Yankees only need 2 more wins to wrap up number 27. Both Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher broke out of their slumps last night and they both hit home runs! Now that these two sluggers have finally woken up the Yankees chances of winning just took a great leap in their favor. Joe Girardi gave Phil Hughes the ball in the ninth inning last night to close it out but after getting the first out in the inning he gave up a home run which made it a 3 run game and a save situation so Girardi went to as much of a sure thing you can get when it comes to relief pitching in post season baseball and that is # 42 Mariano Rivera. “Enter Sandman” wan’t playing on the PA system but none the less Mo got the job done.
YOU’RE ON THE “MARK” TEIXEIRA!
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BRONX,NY~ What a game for the New York Yankees! First A-Rod comes through with an A-Bomb in the ninth then Teixeira hit the wall scraper to win it in the tenth. Burnett got to deliver another pie and the Yankees won yet another game. It’s win number 105 and their 2nd in the post season. One more win will put the Yankees in the ALCS and the same goes for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim who play game 3 of their series tomorrow night at Fenway Park as they try to complete a sweep of the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees try to complete their sweep of the Minnesota Twins as they want to close the Metrodome on a sour note with the elimination of the Twins from the 2009 Post Season.
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Los Angeles Leads Series 2 – 0
YANKEES TAKE SERIES FROM BLUE JAYS WITH ANOTHER WALK OFF WIN
Robinson Cano puts a jolt into a pitch that goes over the head of RF Joe Inglett and bounces off the right field wall to win the game with his first walk off hit of the season and the fourth of his career.
Joe Inglett (1) could not make the play as the ball goes over his head and bounces off the wall.
Alex Rodriguez comes home with the winning run in the bottom of the eleventh to give the Yankees yet another walk off victory.
The Yankees mob Robinson Cano after he hit the single to win the game.
Chad Gaudin also picked up his first win as a New York Yankee pitching two shutout innings in pinstripes today. Here is the line on number 41 Chad Gaudin.
And you can’t have a Yankees walk off win without a pie courtesy of Mr. A.J. Burnett!
Here’s an injury update on Yankees SS Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter was hit by a pitch in the first inning and left later in the game with a right foot contusion and X-Rays came back negative.
YANKEES SWEEP RED SOX & TAKE SIX AND A HALF GAME LEAD IN AL EAST
John Lester watches the first run of the game go over the fence off the bat of Alex Rodriguez.
Alex hit Home Run number 21 of the season and the 574th of his career.
Alex Rodriguez gave the Yankees the lead against Boston starter Jon Lester with career home run No. 574 in the seventh inning, moving him past Harmon Killebrew for sole possession of ninth place on baseball’s all-time list and coming in support of Pettitte’s seven shutout innings.
They glanced into the triple-decked wonder this weekend and could agree: theenergy is back. Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira pumped the volume with back-to-back eighth inning home runs as the Yankees rallied for a 5-2 win and an emotional four-game sweep of the Red Sox.
As Teixeira watched his go-ahead shot off Daniel Bard soar high into the night sky, he carried his bat down to first base, casting it aside when the drive stayed fair. The fourth sellout crowd of the weekend erupted into a frenzy, serenading the falling Red Sox with chants of “Sweep! Sweep!!
Andy is seen here punching out “Yankee Killer” Jason Bay in the top of the sixth inning.
“It was a postseason series,” said Andy Pettitte, who hurled seven scoreless innings in arguably his best start of the year. “It really did feel like that. The fans were just unbelievably into it and have always been fired up. There was just a lot of excitement.
Boston IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Lester 7.0 5 1 1 0 7 1 3.67
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THIS IS WHAT RED SOX FANS HAVE TO LOOK AT EVERY TIME THEY GO FENWAY PARK!
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