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Mo getting to 600 makes it a magic number
Oh, those nice round numbers in baseball – 3,000 hits, 500 home runs, 300 victories, 3,000 strikeouts. But 600 saves? It remains to be seen whether the 600-save plateau for relief pitchers will ever be...
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Yanks in middle of Red Sox-Rays fight
While they have clarified their postseason situation by clinching the American League East title and guaranteeing home field advance in the Division Series and League Championship Series, the Yankees...
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Rays stun Yanks’ long parade of relievers
Joe Girardi managed Wednesday night’s game as if were an All-Star Game, and just as what happened to Joe Torre and Bob Brenly in 2002 he ran out of pitchers as the Rays staged a stunning comeback to...
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Facing Verlander once proves bad enough for Yanks
I wrote after the Yankees’ Game 1 victory in the American League Division Series that the rain suspension may have worked in their favor. I based that on the fact that they would not have to face...
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A.J. does his part
You must have heard the expression dozens of times over the past 24 hours that A.J. Burnett would be on a short leash as the starter for the Yankees in Game 4 of the American League Division Series. No...
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Yanks’ team effort gets ALDS back to Stadium
The Yankees couldn’t have asked for a better way to stay alive in the American League Division Series and get back to New York for the deciding game Thursday night. The 10-1 victory over the Tigers...
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A.J. runs away from AL East
The A.J. Burnett saga with the Yankees has finally come to an end. After two seasons that had Yankees fans pulling out their hair on a regular basis, Burnett found a new home. With a surplus of...
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Battery creates positive sparks
Not that Yankees manager Joe Girardi would ever concede that he allow pitchers to have their favorite catcher, but backup backstop Chris Stewart was again behind the plate Sunday in a game started by...
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Kuroda has found a home at Yankee Stadium
There is always concern whether a pitcher who has had success in the National League can transfer that to the American League where lineups tend to be deeper because of the designated hitter rule. This...
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4-K inning for Hughes
Whitey Ford never did it. Red Ruffing never did it. Ron Guidry never did it. A.J. Burnett did do it. Do what? Strike out four batters in an inning, that’s what. That is what Phil Hughes did in the...
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