Published: September 17, 2009
So it was an old fashioned “Base-brawl” at Yankee Stadium Tuesday evening and it could have been avoided had Jorge Posada realized that the post season is more important than precipitating an altercation with a game that meant nothing. Because the Yankees are heading to post season play and the Toronto Blue Jays are just [...]
Published: August 21, 2009
NEW YORK – A few hours before the New York Mets took the field Gary Sheffield asked manager Jerry Manuel to take him out of the lineup. Earlier, Sheffield, the 22-year veteran met and asked GM Omar Minaya for a contract extension that was denied. Sheffield excused himself and later in the game came off [...]
Published: August 5, 2009
Flushing, NY – Joel Pineiro the St. Louis Cardinals right handed pitcher and Johan Santana who had been perfect in three games against St. Louis should have been the story Tuesday evening at Citi Field. They would not figure in the final outcome but the bat of Albert Pujols did. There was Pujols, in the [...]
Published: June 29, 2009
New York- This subway Inter-League Series during the season since 1997 between the two New York baseball teams, the Yankees against the Mets, has always provided some type of drama. Even during those Yankee championship years, under manager Joe Torre, Mariano Rivera – perhaps the best relief pitcher baseball – has seen was always a [...]
Published: June 11, 2009
New York – Johan Santana gave the ball to New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel on the mound in the eighth inning. He tied a career high giving up four home runs in a game to the Philadelphia Phillies and threw a season low 91 pitches. He also had a RBI double in the sixth [...]
Published: May 12, 2009
NEW YORK – Jose Reyes made a base running mistake that may have cost the Mets a chance to win their game earlier against the Atlanta Braves Tuesday evening at Citi Field. But it was Carlos Beltran who made the difference as he crossed home plate with the winning run. The Mets 4-3 win in [...]
Published: April 21, 2009
After the twenty home runs hit in four games at the new Yankee Stadium the engineers began the research as to how the winds played a role at the newest launching pad in Major League Baseball. The Yankees made it 21 in five games Tuesday night taking the first game of a rain shortened three- [...]