We Have The Yankees
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Let's end one debate before it really gets started. The Red Sox gave it a nice run for a while, but the Yankees are the team of the decade -- again.
I can just imagine what the scene in Red Sox Nation is about now. The fans are bitter. Very bitter. The Yankees are back on top, and that can't be sitting too well in New England.
Boston fans can cry all they want that the Yankees bought a championship, but so what? The Yankees are winners. They get the ring. Their city is happy and they are sticking out their tongues at the Red Sox and the rest of the world.
With the Phillies up 3-2 in the top of the fifth inning, Nick Swisher led off with a double for the Yankees. Cole Hamels came back to strike out Melky Cabrera.
The next hitter was Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte. Hamels threw Pettitte a curveball, hoping perhaps he would square to bunt and perhaps pop it up. It is a rare American League pitcher who can get his bat on a good breaking pitch.
"I've gotten my fair share of those while bunting," Hamels said. "Maybe you even hope he swings away and misses it. Baseball is very, very difficult to understand sometimes."Hamels hung the curveball and Pettitte lined it into center field for an RBI single, the first by a Yankees pitcher in the World Series since Jim Bouton in 1964 against the Cardinals.
"Runner in scoring position, I'm going to be a little more aggressive," said Pettitte, a good athlete who played three years in the National League isn't helpless at the plate. "I wasn't taking. I just wanted a ball up in the zone. I'm not trying to hit a home run, I'm trying to slap the ball around and fortunately enough, I got a ball up in the zone and I was able to slap it back up the middle."
A rattled Hamels lost control of the game quickly. Jeter lined the next pitch into center field for a single. Johnny Damon took a strike then pounded a double to the gap in right, scoring two runs. Then Hamels walked Mark Teixeira and his night was done.
The Yankees led 5-3 en route to an 8-5 victory and one curveball that a pitcher decided to swing at may have changed the World Series.
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