[新聞] Playoffs for Yankees in 16 of 17 years
看板NY-Yankees作者laperous (One Pitch Two Outs!)時間12年前 (2011/09/23 06:01)推噓6(6推 0噓 20→)留言26則, 8人參與討論串1/1
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A month past his 40th birthday, Jorge Posada walked up to home plate and
found himself in a position so familiar, yet so different.
A starter no more, a champion still.
Posada came off the bench and helped the Yankees to yet another first-place
finish, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run single in the eighth inning Wednesday
night. The big hit propelled New York to sweep the Tampa Bay Rays by identical
4-2 scores in a day-night doubleheader, clinching the AL East title.
So filled with emotion was Posada, he was sure the game was over when his
bases-loaded hit bounced into right field as pinch-runner Greg Golson came
home from third.
"I thought it was the bottom of the ninth, to tell the truth," Posada said.
"Then I saw Tex (Mark Teixeira) scoring from second base, and I was like,
What's going on?"
For the Rays, it was a damaging day as they missed a chance to move up on
Boston in the AL wild-card race. The Red Sox lost to Baltimore 6-4, but still
extended their lead over Tampa Bay to 2 1/2 games. The Los Angeles Angels
also are 2 1/2 games behind.
"We feel lucky,'' manager Joe Maddon said." We're very fortunate that Baltimore
has played as well as they have." <----------!!光芒也慶幸金鶯把紅襪hold住~ XD
Accomplishing most of their regular-season goals with a week to spare, the
Yankees earned their 16th playoff berth in 17 seasons by winning the day game
behind Robinson Cano's tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth. Mariano
Rivera, a five-time World Series champion along with Posada and Derek Jeter,
closed out the opener for save No. 603, extending his own career record.
"You think about the two games we won today, with Mo closing the first one
and Jorgy getting the big hit in the second one, it's awesome,'' Yankees
manager Joe Girardi said. <---------------- 很有意義的雙重賽,第一場MO關門,
第二場Jorge大家都知道對他意義無比重大。:)
They didn't bother celebrating after the opener - Yankees blase at its best -
but vowed to let loose when they secured the division crown, their 12th in 16
years. They made good on that promise, donning goggles and spraying the
bubbly in the clubhouse.
Of course, it was domestic - Mumm Napa Brut Prestige - and Lunetta Prosecco
from Italy. At Yankee Stadium, the good French champagne is saved for World
Series titles.
In the opener, Alex Rodriguez hit an RBI double in the first, but that was
all the Yankees got off Jeff Shields (15-12) until the eighth. Desmond
Jennings put the Rays ahead 2-1 with a two-run homer in the second inning off
emergency starter Hector Noesi.
Eduardo Nunez then hooked an 82 mph changeup into the first row of the
left-field seats leading off the eighth. Brett Gardner singled with one out,
Jeter walked, and that was it for Shields.
J.P. Howell relieved and fell behind 3-1, and Cano lined an opposite-field
drive into the gap in left-center. In the dugout, Shields briefly put a towel
over his head, unable to watch.
In the night game, CC Sabathia failed in his bid to reach 20 wins for the
second time in his career. Wasting a 2-0 lead, he allowed solo homers to No.
9 hitter Kelly Shoppach in the fifth and Sean Rodriguez in the seventh, the
latter clanking high off the left-field foul pole. That offset Cano's
second-inning homer and a run-scoring, double-play grounder by Jesus Montero
in the fourth.
Tampa Bay had a chance when Jennings singled with one out in the eighth, B.J.
Upton singled on a liner off Sabathia's glove and Evan Longoria, down 0-2 in
the count, worked out an eight-pitch walk.
David Robertson (4-0) relieved, and Ben Zobrist grounded into a 4-6-3 double
play on his first pitch. After returning from the birth of a child, Zobrist
had struck out in his first four at-bats of the twinbill.
In the bottom half, pinch-hitter Nick Swisher doubled off Jake McGee (3-2)
with one out, and Curtis Granderson flied out. Juan Cruz came in and walked
Teixeira on four pitches, and Cesar Ramos fell behind Cano 3-1 before walking
him intentionally to load the bases for Posada. , who pumped a fist as he ran
up the first-base line after his hard hit off Brandon Gomes.
Back in May, Posada had asked to be taken out of the lineup after he learned
Girardi had dropped him to No. 9 in the batting order for a game against
Boston. He returned the next day and apologized, and seemed to accept his
role as a part-time designated hitter.
"It's been a tough year, but I don't look at the past, I look at the future.
I look at the day by day. I keep looking forward,'' Posada said. ''We got
something special going on here and, hopefully, we can continue this ride."
Girardi also had Jeter and Alex Rodriguez on the bench, but he decided Posada
was more used to pinch hitting at this stage.
"This is a guy who has been a great Yankee, has had a wonderful career and
has had a lot of big hits in his time," the manager said. "He's found a way
to enjoy this season, which I think was really important. The thing about
this game, we all want to believe we can play it forever."
When Yankees reliever Rafael Soriano struck out Matt Joyce to end it, New
York players - in orderly fashion, of course - streamed to the mound to
finally celebrate. They stayed out for about five minutes.
After failing to sign Cliff Lee last December and losing Andy Pettitte to
retirement, the Yankees watched as many predicted the Red Sox would win the
AL East. That motivated them through the long season.
"It's not often that we're considered the underdogs,'' Girardi said. ''But I
understood."
Notes: Yankees scheduled starter Phil Hughes was scratched from the opener
and had an injection of painkiller in his back. GM Brian Cashman anticipates
Hughes will return to the mound next week during the final series of the
regular season. ... Luis Ayala (2-2), the seventh of eight Yankees pitchers,
relieved with two on and two outs in the eighth of the opener and struck out
his only two batters. ... No team had clinched a playoff berth in a
doubleheader opener since the 1999 Red Sox, who chose to wait until after the
nightcap to celebrate. ... The Yankees have never failed to finish first after
opening a lead of at least 6 1/2 games.
概述:這篇就是雙頭賽的過程後紀+Posada整季心情和處境轉折...有看Live的一定很享受
這兩場,沒看Live的就看Box享受美東龍頭成績~ XD 文章重點在最後倒數兩句跟附註:
Girardi說“我們不常被認為是居下風的一方,但我了解為什麼。去年沒簽到Lee,加上
派帥退休,我們就在大家都看好紅襪奪美東龍頭的情況下被"刺激"到了”! XD
附註:1. Hughes背部已注射止痛劑,下周(季賽最後一個系列戰)會回來。
2. 自1999年紅襪後,沒有任何一隊是在雙重賽的第一場勝利後確定進入季後賽的。
3. 我們如果領先6.5場以上的勝場,美東龍頭一定就是我們拿走!XD
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照片上的Swisher無疑是嗨咖一枚~ XD
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